Iranian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and Congolese migrants who are being stopped from furthering their journeys into Europe have taken to sewing their mouths shut with thread and embarking upon hunger strikes to draw attention to their campaign for Europe to completely remove all border control processes.

AFP reported that men who say they are from Iran have been camping on the tracks of the railroad on the border between Greece and Macedonia.

Meanwhile, dozens of other migrant activists have been counterintuitively scrawling the name of their countries of origin on their heads, or wearing hats to show that they are in fact not from countries considered dangerous enough for them to qualify as refugees.

One sign in the crowd reads: “Shoot us or save us, we never go back. We want freedom. We are Bangladeshi. Save our life”

Others read: “Open the border, Pakistan” and “Freedom of movement” – aping the European Union’s language in the Lisbon Treaty.

Another few signs held up say: “Stop Racism” and “We Are Sorry France But We Are Not Dangers”.

The migrants in question are coming from countries such as India – a country with a space programme, Morocco, Bangladesh – a parliamentary democracy ranked as “partly free” by Freedom House, and Pakistan, which is a nuclear power.

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