group of migrants on mass hunger strike were charged with causing grievous bodily harm on Wednesday after doctors at a Red Cross hospital in Athens accused them of preventing hunger strikers from eating.
According to doctors, the migrants had asked hospital staff for food but this could not be given to them after the two women from the Solidarity Committee stopped them from being served.
The two women, charged with causing harm by omission and unlawful violence, are to go before a misdemeanours police court.
The Solidarity Committee denied the charges against the two women in a statement on Tuesday, claiming that the hunger strikers had themselves chosen not to eat. Their lawyer claimed that the migrants themselves refused to eat and the two women were not involved.
source: ANA-MPA
