Lang stressed that hunger strikers did not want to commit suicide but exercise their right to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with some acts.
Lang said that criticisms levelled against independent MP Branimir Glavas, a war crimes suspect who has been on a hunger strike in a Zagreb prison hospital for 33 days, that until recently his strike was not a real hunger strike, posed a serious threat to Glavas's life.
"Glavas was hurt morally and as a human being and started taking only water", said Lang, who distributed copies of the World Declaration on Hunger Strikers to reporters.
He slammed parliamentary deputies who are physicians by profession for failing to respond to what he said was violation of Glavas's rights and disrespect for medical ethics. He particularly criticised Croatian Democratic Union deputy Andrija Hebrang's for claiming that Glavas's strike, before he started taking only water, had not been a hunger strike and that his life was not endangered.
Lang recalled that seven war veterans had started a hunger strike as a sign of support for Glavas in front of the prison hospital where he was admitted after he started the strike.