<p>ATHENS, Greece — Supporters of a jailed gunman from an armed extreme-left group who is on hunger strike and in failing health evaded security Tuesday to protest outside the Athens home of Greece’s president.</p>
<p>The government condemned the action at the home of President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, where the protesters scattered leaflets. No arrests were reported.</p>
<p>Dimitris Koufodinas, 63, is serving 11 life sentences for murder, armed robbery and use of firearms and explosives as a leading member of the militant group November 17, whose members remained at large for decades until a botched bomb attack in 2002.</p>
<p>Koufodinas has been on hunger strike for more than six weeks after the center-right government led recent legislative amendments to anti-terrorism laws, ending his furloughs and stay in a low-security rural prison.</p>
<p>Koufodinas argues that his transfer in December to a high-security prison in central Greece was illegal and is demanding to return to the Athens prison where he had spent most of his sentence so far. </p>
<p>His supporters have staged multiple protests including a recent firebomb attack at the entrance of a private television station, and vandalizing the entrance of a building used as a private office by Greece’s minister of education. </p>
