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A man on hunger strike is helped by a comrade as he occupies with others a big room of the ULB Francophone university in Brussels
FEARS are growing for the wellbeing of nearly 500 undocumented migrants who have been on hunger strike in Belgium in a bid to be granted legal status.
At least four men are known to have stitched their mouths together and others are said to be seriously weakened as a result of their action, while the Belgian government remains unmoved.
After visiting the hunger-strikers this weekend, the Socialist Women’s Union (SKB) has demanded urgent action from Brussels before any deaths occur.
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10