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26 May 2017, 6:52 am by Elizabeth Lowman
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] voiced concern [UN press release] on Wednesday over the treatment of hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. [read post]
” The post Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi begins hunger strike from Tehran prison cell appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
7 Jul 2006, 2:44 am
Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Keir-Kevin Curry, however, denied that Aziz began a hunger strike, saying that Aziz has [read post]
7 May 2013, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Most of the remaining detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base prison have now joined a hunger strike. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 10:31 am by Gwenyth Gamble
Israel's High Court of Justice [official website] ruled Sunday that the implementation of a law allowing the force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strikes is constitutional. [read post]
10 Jan 2007, 7:15 am
[JURIST] A coordinated hunger strike has halted proceedings before Bosnia's national war crimes after multiple defendants boycotted the court Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, demanding to be tried under the criminal code in place at the time of their alleged crimes, not under the 2003 criminal code [text] which authorizes forty-year maximum penalties for those crimes charged. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 6:44 am by Laura Klein Mullen
[JURIST] Ukraine's imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive] announced on Monday [press release] that she would go on a hunger strike to show her support [Guardian report] for the demonstrators who have been protesting Ukraine's decision to abandon a planned EU trade pact. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 4:40 am
[JURIST] Approximately 40 inmates in a Tanzania prison awaiting trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] began a hunger strike Monday to protest the planned transfer of three ICTR cases to the national courts of Rwanda. [read post]
The post Longest held Iranian-American hostage launches hunger strike in appeal to Biden for release appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 11:23 am by Paul Caron
Begins Hunger Strike Aimed at 10 Law Schools: ABA Journal, ‘Unemployed JD’ Says He’s on Day 5 of Hunger Strike to Spur Law School Reform Huffington Post, 'Unemployed JD' Goes on Hunger Strike to Protest Law Schools Huffington Post, Unemployed Law School Grad... [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 12:00 pm by Mike LaChance
" The post Brown University President Refuses Demands of Students Staging Hunger Strike for Palestine first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]
10 Jun 2009, 11:42 am
Related to my long post on Shoe Bomber Richard Reid's hunger strike at Supermax in Florence, Colorado, I see that the Canadian press is reporting that convicted terrorist Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, serving life at Supermax, is also on a hunger strike: Mohammed Mansour Jabarah has refused to eat since mid-April and prison officials are allegedly pumping food into his stomach using a tube inserted in his nose. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 7:56 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
He is also on Day 6 of a hunger strike to save his and other businesses from an intrusive bike lane. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 3:30 am by Benjamin Wittes
The other day, Steve wrote a post noting a letter from habeas counsel at Guantanamo to the effect that “all but a few” detainees are currently on hunger strike to protest searches and confiscations and alleged abuses of the Quran. [read post]
2 Sep 2016, 1:00 am by Paul Caron
Inside Higher Ed, Going Hungry for Tenure: Lafayette professor goes on a hunger strike to protest what he sees as irregularities and injustices in his failed tenure bid. [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 10:50 am by Immigration Prof
Photo courtesy of ICE website Three immigrant women who say they were punished for joining a hunger strike in a Texas family detention center on Thursday sued U.S. [read post]
29 Dec 2005, 4:11 pm
[JURIST] US military authorities at the Guantanamo [JURIST news archive] detention facility announced [statement, PDF] Thursday that the number of participants in the ongoing hunger strike at the prison has surged, reaching an acknowledged total of 84, including 48 who have joined the action since last Sunday. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 3:48 pm
Just a day after the state of Texas carried out its 400th execution, two death row inmates are to begin a hunger strike on August 23 in an apparent protest to their upcoming executions. [read post]
10 May 2012, 12:32 pm by Sung Un Kim
The prisoners, who have been in Israeli custody, began their open-ended hunger strike two weeks ago to protest against unjust arrest procedures, arbitrary detention and bad prison conditions. [read post]