Bulgarian asylum seekers in Norway threaten to go on hunger strike

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OSLO, 17 July 2001 - Plamen Kotsev, spokersperson of the Bulgarian asylum seekers in Norway, revealed before the Norwegian Afterposten daily that the Bulgarian emigrants will go on hunger strike unless they are given residence permits. Forty Bulgarians from the Lisaker refugee centre in Berum and the Torshoff centre in Oslo protested last Saturday before the capital's railway station against what they called the "inhuman treatment" by the Norwegian authorities. They have threatened to go on hunger strike from Sunday.

Meanwhile, the newspaper reports that about 150 of the asylum seekers housed at the Torshov Competence Center in Oslo started refusing to eat over the weekend unless their asylum applications went through comprehensive evaluation. The Norwegian authorities have stated that the hunger strikes would have no effect.

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