Dozens of protesters were arrested at the office of the ruling New Democracy Party in Moschato, Athens, demonstrating in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the leftist urban guerilla 17 November who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison, where he will be able to see visitors again.
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