NCRI – The hunger strike of the residents of Camp Liberty and Iranians in Geneva, Berlin, London, Ottawa, and Melbourne entered its 60th day today.
Tomorrow will mark the beginning of the third month of the hunger strikes to demand the release of the seven Ashraf residents taken hostage on September 1 by Iraqi forces.
One of the doctors at Camp Liberty who checks the physical condition of the hunger strikers every day wrote in a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “Most of the men and women on hunger strike have lost 20 per cent of their weight. They are suffering from lack of sleep, headaches, dizziness, failing eyesight and hearing, various muscular, bone and joint pains and lack of concentration. I can cite various cases whose lives are at risk, especially among the female hunger strikers.”
He also warned that the Liberty residents are on the brink of a great humanitarian catastrophe unfolding before the eyes of the international community, and urgent action was crucial to prevent this catastrophe.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 27, 2013
