56 hunger strikers were finally detained after a 13-hour protest on board a Lufthansa aircraft. Totally, there were 120 passengers and some of them decided to leave the plane prior to the police actions.

The passengers had EU passports but claimed they were of Iranian origin. The details of their identities are now being investigated in the detention center at the airport, where they were bussed after the failed negotiations.

The strikers were demanding the European Union, the United States and Russia to stop co-operating with the Iranian government.

"We won’t be moved from here unless we die and they take our bodies from the aeroplane," said one of the protestants, "we are not terrorists but messengers of peace".

The plain arrived from Frankfurt on Thursday afternoon.