Migrants in Barcelona detention center start hunger strike

Around 60 Guinean detainees in Barcelona’s Migrant Detention Center (CIE in Catalan) started a hunger strike on Monday evening, say Spanish police, in protest against what they describe as poor conditions. The protesters, which may include minors, demand to be released by the state authorities, which run the center, and say they are determined not to give up their protest until they are “granted freedom,” said the Let’s Close the CIE NGO (Tanquem els CIE, in Catalan) in a news conference on Tuesday.