Refugees sew their lips shut, call hunger strike in protest over border tightening

A group of refugees and migrants barred from crossing the Greece-Macedonia border protest the decision by sewing their lips up with nylon Stranded migrants on Greece's northern border with Macedonia protested against a policy to close the border to some of them, while others are allowed into Macedonia by security officials. One of the migrants had his lips sewn together with nylon in front of lines of Macedonian riot police and declared a hunger strike to protest the discrimination. The man, who is said to come from Iran, started sitting in protest at the border line with his mouth sewn shut.

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