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14 Sep 2018, 10:30 am
But the Nationwide Prison Strike has shown us that the hunger for change won’t be snuffed out. [read post]
4 Sep 2018, 12:34 pm
Currently Sotoudeh is on a hunger strike in prison to protest the arrest of civil rights activists and the harassment of her family and friends by police forces. [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 7:23 am
Those participating in the strike will not show up to their assigned jobs and will engage in sit-ins, and some prisoners may elect to go on hunger strike. [read post]
17 Aug 2018, 12:30 pm
She's transferred to the hospital two weeks into the hunger strike; it's too late; she dies. [read post]
24 Jul 2018, 4:00 pm
Families for Freedom announced last week that ICE detainees had begun a hunger strike to protest inhuman conditions. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 5:42 am
During their time in detention the mothers organized labor and hunger strikes as they fought for their freedom. 10 families were deported back to their home country returning to the violence they were fleeing, and 4 families were released in the United States still fighting against their possible deportation and living through the trauma of being detained.We want to thank these families for their unending strength and commitment to all of those seeking freedom. [read post]
21 Jun 2018, 1:51 pm
Lawmakers can show they are serious about improving the well-being of low-income people by investing in our country’s most effective anti-hunger program — not undermining it.Trevor Brown contributed to this blog post.Stick a Fork in the House Farm Bill. [read post]
17 Apr 2018, 3:21 am
Reuters reports that immigrants held in a Japanese immigration detention center have gone on a hunger strike over the death of a detainee. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 1:35 pm
” Despite being weakened by her hunger strike, the author jumped out of her cell. [read post]
20 Mar 2018, 8:00 am
Khalid Ahmed Qassim, a Guantanamo Bay detainee from Yemen who made international headlines by writing in the Guardian about his hunger strike protesting his treatment, submitted multiple filings to the U.S. [read post]
19 Mar 2018, 11:58 am
They subsequently staged hunger strikes in protest against their treatment, and on March 12, "the two defenders were reportedly beaten by riot guards following a disturbance, and then transferred to the general... [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 6:42 am
” Abuse of Golrokh and her cellmate, Atena Daemi, another prominent WHRD, has continued to date; the two have been on a hunger strike since early-February to protest their recent beating by prison guards and to demand their return to women’s ward of the prison. [read post]
7 Feb 2018, 2:57 pm
In what is arguably the opposite of a hunger strike, a man arrested in the UK on January 17 and suspected of “concealing illicit substances inside his body” has reportedly refused to use the toilet ever since. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 7:31 am
In a recent post I considered the emerging state of E.U. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 6:00 am
To demonstrate the “severe degenerative physical and psychological effects” of “endur[ing] perpetual uncertainty about their fate, including whether they will ever be released,” the motion cites medical experts to support the proposition that such detention is “a recognized form of psychological torture,” as well as evidence of hunger strike and prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications, compounded by nature’s “toll taken by the… [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 6:00 am
To demonstrate the “severe degenerative physical and psychological effects” of “endur[ing] perpetual uncertainty about their fate, including whether they will ever be released,” the motion cites medical experts to support the proposition that such detention is “a recognized form of psychological torture,” as well as evidence of hunger strike and prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications, compounded by nature’s “toll taken by the… [read post]
1 Nov 2017, 3:58 am
Enjoy. tonite, thriller was abt an ol woman , so vain she surrounded herself w/ many mirrors it got so bad that finally she locked herself indoors & her whole life became the mirrors one day the villagers broke into her house , but she was too swift for them . she disappeared into a mirror each tenant who bought the house after that , lost a loved one to the ol woman in the mirror : first a little girl then a young woman then the young woman/s husband the hunger of this poem is… [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 4:05 pm
I was interested to read Mr Justice Warby’s remarks about remedies in defamation cases in his recent address to the Annual Conference of the Media Law Resource Center. [read post]
13 Oct 2017, 10:22 am
Khalid Qassim, a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, wrote about his ongoing hunger strike and his treatment from the U.S. military. [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 9:04 am
The Times’s Charlie Savage wrote about a hardening of policies at Guantanamo Bay that are pushing the bounds in the care of prisoners on hunger strikes. [read post]
