Afghan hunger strikers threaten to refuse medical assistance

The Afghan hunger strikers inside St Patrick's Cathedral are now threatening to refuse medical assistance.

The group, whose members are looking for asylum in Ireland, are on the seventh day of their sit-in.

The protestors are said to be very weak today and they are still threatening suicide. They have also stopped taking fluids for a second time.

Last night two protestors who had been taken to hospital were refused re-entry to the cathedral.