Ten Kurdish asylum seekers in Poland have now been refusing to eat for three weeks straight in protest of what they described as prison-like conditions and slow asylum procedures.
A group of around 100 migrants, mostly from Iraq, are holding a hunger protest over conditions in the Polish reception center where they are being held. The strike is the second of its kind at the center in Wędrzyn.
Four months after ending their hunger strike, about fifty undocumented migrants are still occupying the Béguinage church in the center of Brussels. Despite discussions held with authorities in the summer, most of the migrants are still waiting to have their status officially regularized. They hold little hope that they will one day get papers.
An Indian asylum seeker who is fighting for his right to stay in Ireland has been hospitalized on day nine of his hunger strike. Nadim Hussain is pleading to be granted permission to remain in Ireland; he says he will be killed if he returns to India.
This summer's extended hunger strike by undocumented migrants in Belgium revealed the shortcomings of the Belgian administration in terms of integration processes for all foreigners. InfoMigrants looks at the different options for living legally in the country.