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Syrian on hunger strike outside Greek parliament

More than 200 Syrian civil war refugees started a hunger strike Monday in front of Greece's Parliament, urging the government to grant them temporary working and residence rights.

 

The protesters began gathering last week at Athens' main square, complaining that refugees are being forced to pay exorbitant black-market rates to live in squalid apartments in Athens.

 

"People are living in bad conditions. We get (temporary) travel documents, but we can't go anywhere. We can't work, or go to hospital, or rent a place to live," said Khaldoon Fadel, a 31-year-old former resident of Damascus, who joined the hunger strike.

 

The hunger strikers said they were only eating sugar. Several dozen of them sat on the marble-paved sidewalk with strips of box tape covering their mouths, and packages of flatbread placed in front of them.

 


פרסום ראשון: 11.24.14, 23:58