Friday, March 30, 2012

HUNGER STRIKE TO CONTINUE THE IMMIGRANTS IN ATHENS AND THESSALONIKI




Determined to continue the hunger strike are 237 immigrants in the early hours of Friday on building at Epirus, and 50 in Thessaloniki, claiming ...


The ... legitimacy. In Athens, the 22 immigrants who until recently housed in spaces of solidarity, and they moved to the building at Epirus, to join their nationals. Médecins du Monde and other NGOs to ensure health status of immigrants in the area, having transferred toilets and showers, while doctors have screening tests to hunger strike. In tents, which have been erected in the courtyard of the building, 104 people live, while the remaining 123 are still on the first floor and basement the building. Two of the migrants sleeping under a table in the yard covered with nylon. Yiotis Peter, member of the Solidarity Committee, commenting on the fact that many are forced to live in tents, complained to ANA-MPA those responsible for trying to blackmail immigrants "in order to pay and give up. " Mr. Yiotis emphasized that the intention of immigrants to continue their struggle to be vindicated, while on the 15thimeri deadline given to them for the use of the building said: "In the hunger strikers and put deadline . The deadline to put in their bodies. " On their side the hunger strikers themselves, many of which are clearly overwhelmed, is determined to continue until the end, as they say, strike and remain optimistic about the outcome of their struggle. * Notice published the Greek Forum of Migrants, Appellate Body of the clubs immigrants in Greece since 2002, categorically denying that was the organizer of the occupation of the Law of the hunger strikers. "We had nothing to do with organizing the protest or movement of people from the island," he said. Source: IN.GR

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