Moroccans, Iranians and Pakistanis on Greece’s northern
border with Macedonia blocked rail traffic and demanded passage to western
Europe on Monday, stranded by a policy of filtering migrants in the Balkans
that has raised human rights concerns.
One Iranian man, declaring a hunger strike, stripped to
the waist, sewed his lips together with nylon and sat down in front of lines of
Macedonian riot police.
Asked by Reuters where he wanted to go, the man, a
34-year-old electrical engineer named Hamid, said: "To any free country in
the world. I cannot go back. I will be hanged."
Hundreds of thousands of migrants, many of them Syrians
fleeing war, have made the trek across the Balkan peninsula having arrived by
boat and dinghy to Greece from Turkey, heading for the more affluent countries
of northern and western Europe, mainly Germany and Sweden.
source:Reuters
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