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The Immigration Minister is being urged to take urgent action to stop an Iranian prisoner on a hunger strike in Auckland from killing himself.
It is now just over a month since Ali Panah stopped eating while waiting in Mt Eden Prison to be deported.
He is now at Auckland Hospital, where he was visited yesterday by Green MP Keith Locke.
Panah will not accept bail conditions he was offered last week as it would mean he would have to return to Iran.
Mr Locke has written to Immigration Minister David Cunliffe asking him to grant humanitarian dispensation.
But he said he would not be intervening.
- NEWSTALK ZB