Police on Tuesday night rounded up six people during clashes with protesters, after a bus and two cars were burned and others overturned in central Athens following the end of a protest march in support of jailed hunger striker Nikos Romanos.
Protesters set barricades on several streets around the Athens Polytechnic University which is now occupied and riot police used teargas and flash bangs to disperse the crowd.
Twenty-one-year-old Romanos has been on hunger strike since November 10 after he was refused a furlough to attend classes at a technical university he was accepted to. He is serving a sentence for a bank robbery.
Three more inmates have joined Romanos in his hunger strike as a "minimum sign of solidarity until his demand is met," according to a joint statement.
Despite the rain, a large crowd participated in the march, including political groups, main opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) youth party, leftist Andarsya party and the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).
Protest marches for Romanos were also held in the cities of Thessaloniki, Iraklion and Chania on Crete, Patras, Ioannina and Mytilene Island.
Earlier, Government Vice-President and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos met with State Minister Dimitris Stamatis, Justice Minister Charalambos Athanassiou, and Education Minister Andreas Loverdos to discuss the necessity of a legislative initiative on the issue of Romanos’ studies. The Judicial Council is still examining Romanos' application for furlough.
source: AMNA
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