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15 Aug 2005, 8:14 am
[JURIST] Senior Teheran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi said Monday it was a lie that jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji [Wikipedia profile; advocacy website], who supporters claim has not eaten for 67 days, was on hunger strike. [read post]
22 Aug 2005, 3:28 am
[JURIST] Iranian political prisoner, dissident journalist Akbar Ganji [Wikipedia profile; advocacy website], has ended the hunger strike he began on June 11 to protest the conditions of his confinement, his wife confirmed Monday. [read post]
24 Aug 2005, 1:04 am
[JURIST] The director of Russia's federal penal service has denied reports made on Tuesday that Mikhail Khodorkovsky [JURIST news archive; defense website], the former CEO of oil company Yukos [corporate website], has gone on a hunger strike [JURIST report] to protest the move of his business partner Platon Lebedev [Wikipedia profile] to an isolation cell. [read post]
9 Aug 2005, 4:04 am
[JURIST] Jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji [Wikipedia profile; advocacy website] has ended his eight-week hunger strike in response to concerns of family and friends for his deteriorating health, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said Tuesday. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 5:21 pm
[JURIST] Some protesters being detained by authorities in Myanmar [JURIST news archive] have begun a hunger strike, demanding that police camp officials provide medical treatment a fellow detainee with a broken leg, prominent labor rights activist Suu Suu Nway [AHRC backgrounder] said Friday. [read post]
14 Oct 2005, 9:36 am
[JURIST] A lawyer for detainees at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] currently on hunger strike [JURIST report] argued Friday before US District Judge Gladys Kessler [official profile] that prisoner attorneys needed more frequent access to their clients. [read post]
15 Apr 2013, 3:55 am
I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 9:24 am
The blogger started the hunger strike to protest his detention in an Egyptian prison north of Cairo. [read post]
1 May 2013, 9:14 am
We do not believe that force-feeding should be an approach to the hunger strike. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 11:14 am
Goes on a Hunger Strike [read post]
8 Dec 2006, 3:50 am
[JURIST] War crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj [BBC profile; ICTY case backgrounder] agreed to end his nearly month-long hunger strike [JURIST report] Friday after an appeals chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website] ruled that Seselj could represent himself during trial. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 1:00 am
., began a hunger strike yesterday directed at ten law schools: My name is Ethan Haines. [read post]
12 Dec 2004, 8:21 pm
[JURIST] Several of Saddam Hussein's old lieutenants, including former deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz, have gone on a hunger strike on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Saddam's capture by US forces to protest their "illegal detention" and their lack of access to defense counsel, according to Aziz attorney Aref Badia. [read post]
17 Jul 2005, 8:50 am
[JURIST] A Jordan Public Security Department spokesman said Sunday that five suspected al-Qaida prisoners started a hunger strike on Tuesday to protest sentences handed down by Jordan's State Security Court [Jordan judicial branch backgrounder] in 2000. [read post]
10 Apr 2009, 12:39 am
Earlier Thursday, Bolivian President Evo Morales [official website; BBC profile] declared himself on hunger strike [YouTube [read post]
21 Sep 2005, 4:40 am
[JURIST] Attorneys for some Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees asked for access to their clients' medical records Wednesday as they worried that the detainees' eight-week-long hunger strike [JURIST report] may be severely harming their clients' health. [read post]
28 Nov 2005, 10:45 am
[JURIST] Four Ethiopians arrested during violent protests of the country's May elections [JURIST report] said Monday that they will begin a hunger strike to voice opposition to their detentions. [read post]
30 Nov 2006, 1:23 pm
[JURIST] Serb nationalist war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj [BBC profile; ICTY case backgrounder], who has been on hunger strike [JURIST report] for close to three weeks, has forbidden staff of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] to force feed him, provide medical treatment or resuscitate him should it become necessary, the tribunal said [read post]
21 Apr 2008, 5:18 pm
Al-Majid had reportedly been on a hunger strike since Friday, but is now in stable condition after passing out Sunday. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 8:41 am
[JURIST] The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website] announced Monday that 25 defendants facing war crimes charges have begun a coordinated hunger strike [press release], 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 the crimes charged. [read post]
