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NT asylum seeker resumes hunger strike

A 33-YEAR-OLD Iranian man is 10 days into a renewed hunger strike after losing all faith in the Australian immigration detention system.

AN Iranian asylum seeker who recently went seven weeks without food has resumed his hunger strike in a Darwin detention centre.

THE 33-year-old man began the strike on November 1, and went 53 days without eating until his lawyers and advocates pressured him into taking food on December 23.

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