Captured Greek far-left militant on hunger strike over son
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ATHENS- A convicted far-left militant captured after more than four years on the run and her imprisoned partner have started a hunger strike over Greek authorities' treatment of their 6-year-old son.
Pola Roupa, 48, appeared in court Friday along with a 25-year-old Greek woman suspected of sheltering her, a day after they were arrested in Athens.
In a statement read to reporters by her sister on Thursday, Roupa said authorities were threatening to put her son in an institution. Roupa's sister and mother have filed a request for temporary custody.
The Initiative for Prisoners' Rights group accused authorities of "vengeful hostage-taking" regarding the child, and said it stood by Roupa and her partner and fellow terrorism suspect Nikos Maziotis in their hunger strike to demand the child's return to relatives.
