21.   Thirty five detainees, including one child, have their lips sewn, an Immigration Department spokesman said.

22.   Thirty five detainees, including one child, have their lips sewn together, an immigration department spokesman said.

23.   Thirty five of them have sewn their lips together.

24.   Officials said two of the detainees had sewn their lips together.

25.   Some of the hunger strikes have sewn their lips together in a protest apparently aimed at winning freedom or the sympathy of a generally hostile Australian community.

26.   The Howard government, which has accused adults in the camp of forcibly sewing the lips of their children together, rejected the offer Friday.