On Wednesday 11th April at 4pm there will be a march to the office of Prime Minister Di Rupo’s Socialist Party in Brussels in solidarity with 23 sans-papiers from Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Burkina Faso and Côte-d’Ivoire who have been on hunger strike for 85 days.
The hunger strikers, who are staying at VUB (Vrije Universiteit van Brussel), are in very poor health, very weak and unable to fight off infection, but they are determined to continue their action until they get papers to live and work in Belgium.
The demonstrators are calling on Di Rupo to discuss the situation urgently in government and give the hunger strikers at work and residence papers for a minimum 12 months. They are also calling for people to write and e-mail the Prime Minister and deputy ministers to demand that they take action.