(AFP) Ten Kurdish asylum seekers in Poland on Friday entered their third week of a hunger strike to protest what they described as prison-like conditions and a slow immigration process.
“The strike began on May 4,” said Dagmara Bielec, a spokeswoman for the Polish border guard.
She added that the six Iraqis and four Turks have requested asylum and are staying at [an] immigration holding centre in Lesznowola, near the capital Warsaw.
A spokesman for the hunger strikers told AFP that nine of them had arrived via the border with Belarus and had now spent several months “confined” to the centre.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the man described the strikers as “very weak, with some of them having begun to refuse beverages too.”
