The Times, 25th September 2009
By Alex Hayes

FIVE more Barnet resident shave joined a dozen other Iranians staging a hunger strike outside the US Embassy to protest at the treatment of refugees in an Iraqi camp.
Three of the existing hunger strikers, who have now entered day 60 of their fast, have been released from hospital after refusing to eat and one has lost his sight.
One of those to join today, law student Farzaneh Hosseini, 22, has joined her father who has been fasting for the entire time and her mother, Ashraf, 57. Her sister is the doctor at the scene.
Yesterday more Anglican clergy came out in support of the hunger strikers, calling on the United Nations to send in forces to oversee conditions in Camp Ashraf.
This follows a call from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rown Williams, on Sunday for the international community to take action to protect the 3,500 refugees in the camp.
Layla Jaleyzehi, a spokesman for the group, said: “What we want is for the UN to react and send in international observers to ensure peace in the camp.
“These people are starving themselves to death yet the international community does nothing. We want to make an appeal directly to the UN Secretary General to step into this situation.
“Many of these people are now close to death, but still the government is refusing to act.”
Hunger strikes started after allegations Iraqi forces used force to enter the camp killing several people, and bulldozed houses. The Iraqi government says it was trying to establish a police station there.