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Article: Refugees end hunger strike
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- The Press
- Article date:
- October 6, 2000
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AUCKLAND --The Chinese refugees on a hunger strike in central
Auckland have ended their protest.
A senior Auckland immigration official yesterday met a
representative of the group at the Auckland City Council head
office.
The building is near Aotea Square, where 40 hunger strikers and
about 60 supporters began their eight-day protest over the exclusion
of refugees from the overstayers' amnesty.
During the protest, 12 of the hunger strikers needed hospital
treatment for dehydration.
Twenty-five were still not eating when the protest ended at
midnight on Wednesday after an appeal ...