Beds stand in a room in a facility for a detention of foreigners in the village of Drahonice, western Czech Republic, October 2, 2015. REUTERS/David W Cerny
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Dozens of migrants launched a hunger strike in one of the detention centres in the Czech Republic on Tuesday to protest against the duration of their stay, volunteers visiting the facility said.
The Czech Republic has avoided large-scale migration through its territory as most of the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing poverty and war in the Middle East via the Balkans to Germany take an easier route through neighbouring Austria.
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