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Evening Standard
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Miriam Burrell

Iranian activist who has lost 10kg marks Norouz on 26th day of hunger strike

Norouz, or Iranian New Year, is looking a little different for British Iranian activist Vahid Beheshti this year as he enters his 26th day of a hunger strike outside the Foreign Affairs Office.

Mr Beheshti is spending the festival on Monday - sometimes referred to as the Iranian equivalent of Christmas in Western culture - in a tent outside the Foreign Affairs Office in London - as he has been for the past three weeks.

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