An Iranian woman, political refugee on hunger strike with her mouth sewn sits by a tent staged in central Athens, Greece, yesterday. Five Iranian political asylum seekers, including a woman, former journalist in Iran, sewed their mouths while on hunger strike along with other 36 Iranian hunger strikers, to demand asylum in Greece.

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