HONG KONG (Reuters) - Twelve anti-free trade activists have gone on hunger strike in Hong Kong demanding that police drop charges against them for their part in demonstrations during last month's World Trade Organisation meeting.
Wearing white bandanas, the 11 South Koreans and one Japanese began their fast on Thursday in the busy Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district, holding placards that read: "WTO destroys our life", "WTO kills farmers."
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