Up to 50 migrants are being given hospital treatment, almost five weeks after going on hunger strike in Greece.
In the opulent settings of a central Athens mansion, more than 200 North African immigrants are slowly starving themselves to death in a bid to secure legal residence – the latest headache for debt-crippled Greece’s governing Socialists.
Some of the migrants were being treated for acute kidney failure, Greek media said.
“There is no room for waiting or negotiation, tomorrow one of them could be dead,” Stratis Plomaritis, a doctor in the second city of Thessaloniki told the ANA news agency.
An immigrant support network said many of the strikers, most of them from North Africa, had stopped taking water.
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