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London Evening Standard – Seven London women have been on hunger strike for nearly 10 weeks near the US embassy in protest at violence in Iraq.<\/p>\n
They began the fast in September after 52 exiled Iranians were killed in a raid by Iraqi security forces.<\/p>\n
The women plus one man say they will continue to refuse meals unless the United States gives protection to remaining occupants of Camp Ashraf, a desert settlement formed by Iranians opposed to their country\u2019s rulers.<\/p>\n
Spokeswoman Laila Jazayeri said they were ordinary women who wanted to highlight the attacks on the camp. She said their health was deteriorating although they have been eating sugar lumps and drinking water.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir condition is really poor,\u201d said Ms Jazayeri, director of the Association of Anglo-Iranian Women in the UK. \u201cSome keep fainting and have stomach problems and a lot of pain. Some are suffering from pain in their whole skeleton.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey say that if they have to lose their lives, they will.\u201d<\/p>\n
Conservative MP Mike Freer has visited the women, who include residents of his Finchley & Golders Green constituency. He said: \u201cThe hunger strikers outside the US embassy are taking a brave stand to raise the profile of what\u2019s happening in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty. Inevitably, the hunger strike is affecting their health which is a cause for concern.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Foreign Office condemned \u201cutterly\u201d the attack on Camp Ashraf, carried out on September 1. Former Commons Speaker Baroness Boothroyd was among parliamentarians who condemned the raid at a conference at Church House last week.<\/p>\n
The township was built in the 1980s by dissidents to launch raids on Iran, with the support of Iraq\u2019s late former dictator Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n
Its existence is an embarrassment to Iraqi prime minister Nouri Maliki who is fostering closer relations with Iran. But he denies sanctioning the violence, in which men and woman were shot at close range, in the style of executions.<\/p>\n
The camp\u2019s main occupants, the People\u2019s Mujahedin Organisation of Iran, is considered a terrorist group by Iran. America previously listed it as a terrorist organisation but removed it from the list last year.<\/p>\n
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