Lesvos: new hungerstrike of detained minors

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47 minors detained in Pagani are on hunger strike since yesterday 1st September 2009.
 
''We don't need anything but freedom
no food, no medicine.
We are in hunger strike.''
 
47 minors detained in Pagani are on hunger strike since yesterday 1st September. Four are on dry hunger strike, they are not drinking either and they are sick, just laying down all day; they are not getting any medical care. The hunger strikers told us are all under 18 and they are from Afghanistan, Somalia, Palestine. They have been detained up to 60 days and there is no sign of them being released.
We went to Pagani this afternoon and spoke to the hunger strikers through the gate. They have made banners out of sheets and hung them to the cage.
Support from local activists is much needed, as well as solicitors and doctors.