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Refugees hunger strike ends in Czech facility

Xinhua, November 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Czech Foreigner Police spokeswoman Katerina Rendlova said the situation in the Drahonice detention facility was calm on Sunday with only one person failing to come to lunch, and that she considered the hunger strike ended.

The hunger strike was started in Drahonice on Tuesday by about 40 refugees, mainly Iraqis, who were in fear of deportation from the Czech Republic to their country of origin.

Rendlova said no problems have been registered in any other detention facility in the Czech Republic.

After the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, Czech foreigner police enhanced patrolling the detention facilities.

Rendlova did not say whether the measures have been taken with regard to the refugees or over possible attacks by Czech anti-Islamic radicals on the facilities.

The detention facility in Drahonice was a prison in the past.

Rendlova said there were 92 people in the facility at present.

Among them were not only migrants, but also Ukrainians and Belorussians whom the foreigner police repeatedly detained because they worked illegally in the country. Endit