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20 Jul 2005, 7:18 pm
[JURIST] Two just-released Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees told reporters Wednesday that more than 180 prisoners at the US detention facility in Cuba are 14 days or so into a hunger strike. [read post]
9 Feb 2006, 12:24 am
[JURIST] The number of detainees still on hunger strike [JURIST report] at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] has dropped to four, military officials said Wednesday. [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 10:01 am
[JURIST] A collective of Saudi citizens [Google group] began a 48-hour hunger strike Thursday to protest what it called the illegal detention of 11 political reformists and to call for judicial reform. [read post]
3 Dec 2006, 2:30 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] has postponed until further notice the war crimes trial of Serb nationalist Vojislav Seselj [BBC profile; ICTY case backgrounder], who has been on a hunger strike [JURIST report] since November 11, saying in a ruling Friday that he will likely be too weak to participate in his defense. [read post]
22 Feb 2006, 12:57 pm
Craddock [official profile], military commander for US Southern Command [official website], which oversees the detention center at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], has confirmed that military officials have begun employing more aggressive tactics to deter detainees from carrying out long-term hunger strikes [JURIST report] to protest their detention. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 2:16 pm
Williams’ hunger strike protested the $7.25 hourly wage of some university employees. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 12:31 pm
District Court in Denver (where he has a civil suit pending against the Bureau of Prisons) advising that he has begun a hunger strike due to the inadequate fiber and excessive refined foods in his diet. [read post]
30 Mar 2020, 1:16 pm
From the Hill More than 150 detained immigrants in a Pennsylvania detention center have started a hunger strike to demand their release amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Movement of Immigration Leaders in Pennsylvania. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 2:59 am
Schmidt's hunger strike, we would never want anyone to put their health and/or safety at risk. [read post]
19 Apr 2008, 11:05 pm
And when it does, the hungry strike back. [read post]
8 May 2017, 5:00 am
Zvia Gordestky Turns to Hunger Strike for Divorce Gordestky is on hunger strike outside of Israel’s parliament building because, according to Jewish law, both husband and wife must agree to a divorce. [read post]
24 Aug 2013, 4:03 pm
Méndez strike against cruel, inhuman and degrading prison conditions Juan E. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 4:31 pm
Dozens of prisoners at Al-Hilla Prison in Iraq went on hunger strike on Sunday demanding better prison conditions including a solution to overcrowding, according to Al-Sharqiyah Television. [read post]
7 Aug 2013, 5:40 pm
The first, by Jeffrey Beard, who heads the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, states: A few hundred inmates are continuing to take part in ahunger strike in California prisons. [read post]
13 Apr 2013, 12:33 pm
The purpose was to move the hunger-striking inmates to maximum security cells. [read post]
23 Jul 2006, 10:28 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] has been hospitalized and is being fed through a tube after a hunger strike now into its third week rendered his health "unstable," according to the chief prosecutor for the Iraqi court currently trying him for crimes against humanity. [read post]
12 May 2008, 4:39 am
[JURIST] An estimated 200-300 detainees held by Afghan authorities at the Afghan-controlled men's prison in Kandahar who went on hunger strike [AP report] last week protesting the slow nature of the Afghanistan judicial system ended their action Monday after a visit by Afghan lawmakers who said their cases would be reviewed by new judges. [read post]
2 Dec 2006, 7:58 am
Seselj is currently on the twenty-second day of his hunger strike; he had [read post]
23 Apr 2008, 12:27 pm
Al-Majid was hospitalized [JURIST report] earlier this week after launching a hunger strike over his detention conditions. [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 5:25 am
[JURIST] The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website; JURIST news archive] entered a plea of not guilty for Bosnian Serb Milrod Trbic [ICTY case backgrounder, PDF] Thursday because Trbic failed to appear in court [press release] after starting a hunger strike on Monday. [read post]
