Stranded Iranians sew their lips shut

A migrant sits in no-man's land with his mouth sewn shut during a protest near the village of Idomeni at the Greek-Macedonian border. Picture: AP Photo/ Giannis Papanikos
A migrant sits in no-man's land with his mouth sewn shut during a protest near the village of Idomeni at the Greek-Macedonian border. Picture: AP Photo/ Giannis Papanikos
An Iranian migrant, 2nd right, with his mouth sewn shut sits during a protest near the village of Idomeni at the Greek-Macedonian border. Picture: AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos
A migrant, centre, from Iran, with stitched mouth in a sign of protest, sits with others in front of police cordon after they were barred from crossing the border, near Gevegelija, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Picture: EPA/ Georgi Licovski
An injured migrant from Iran gives a cigarette to a fellow Kurdish migrant with stitched mouth, in a sign of protest, as they sit in front of the police cordon, near Gevegelij. Picture: EPA/ Georgi Licovski
An Iranian migrant sews his mouth shut during a protest near the village of Idomeni at the Greek-Macedonian border. Picture: AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos
Migrants from Iran, with stitched mouths in a sign of protest, sit near Gevegelija, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Picture: EPA/ Georgi Licovski
A man sews shut the mouth of a migrant or refugee who claimed to be from Iran as migrants and refugees wait to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near Gevgelija. Picture: AFP Photo/ Robert Atanasovski

Published Nov 24, 2015

Warsaw, Poland -

Six Iranian migrants have sewn their mouths shut during a protest near the village of Idomeni at the Greek-Macedonia border.

They took the action on Monday as several hundred migrants, many from Iran and Morocco, protested for a fourth straight day at the border.

Macedonia and other Balkan countries have toughened criteria for border crossings in the wake of the deadly November13 Paris attacks.

Police say 2 900 people crossed the border into Macedonia in the 24 hours before 6am on Monday, down from more than 6 000 on the previous day.

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