Hunger strike

The US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt commented on a jailed terrorist on Thursday who has made headlines in the past few weeks due to a hunger strike he started to protest the rejection of what would have been his seventh furlough.

A Syrian political dissident has been on a hunger strike in Istanbul for 11 days after Canada failed to follow through on his application for asylum for himself and his family, who he has not seen in years.

The deputy Belgrade mayor also announced on Friday that he has for the moment postponed his decision to launch a hunger strike.

Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti is reporting that it has confirmation of this.

The leader of the Moria community on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos ended on Wednesday a hunger strike which he had started on Sunday in protest at overcrowding at the Moria reception center.

New Democracy vowed Tuesday to abolish the "despicable" "Paraskevopoulos law," which led to the release Tuesday, for a third time, of convicted November 17 hitman Dimitris Koufodinas on a two-day furlough.

Kostas Bakoyiannis, the Regional governor of Central Greece, decried on Tuesday a decision by prison authorities to grant a 48-hour prison leave to the jailed shooter of disbanded terrorist group November 17, who went on a two-week-long hunger strike.

Jailed November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas, who had gone on a hunger strike for almost two weeks, was released from the Nikaia state hospital on Monday.

He was to be returned to Korydallos maximum security prison before he is granted his third 48-hour furlough.

Jailed November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas, who has been on hunger strike for almost two weeks, will be granted a 48-hour furlough after his health recovers, authorities said Thursday.

Koufodinas had been on a strike since May 30 because authorities refused to give him a leave of absence from prison. He was transferred to an Athens hospital last week.

Anarchist group Rouvikonas raised a banner in front of the Parthenon, on the Acropolis Hill, on Thursday, to express support for jailed November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas, who has been on hunger strike for almost two weeks.