There were meetings with government officials at which “agreements” were reached, the Belga news agency reported, citing representatives of the strikers. As Belga further reports, it was initially unclear whether all the strikers were really ready to eat again.
On May 23, the approximately 450 undocumented migrants went on hunger strike. You are in a church and university buildings in Brussels. According to the information, every striker should be informed about his or her options for a residence permit from Thursday.
The strike had recently escalated further when some of the migrants said they also went without water. The aid organization Doctors of the World had therefore warned of possible deaths. Around 150,000 undocumented migrants live in Belgium. They are exposed to the exploitation of the labor and housing market, UN experts warned last week.
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