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24 Jun 2008, 11:09 am
[JURIST] More than 560 inmates in Kosovo's Dubrava Prison [official website, in Albanian] began a hunger strike Sunday to protest poor conditions at the prison and to pressure the government to pass an anticipated amnesty law. [read post]
14 Feb 2006, 12:30 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] on Tuesday told the Iraqi High Criminal Court - formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website] - that he was on hunger strike [JURIST report] in protest at the way chief judge Ra'uf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman [BBC profile] has been treating Hussein and his co-defendants. [read post]
17 Apr 2018, 3:21 am by Immigration Prof
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]
4 Sep 2016, 3:04 pm by Mark Casper
Members of the international community have called upon Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas to end his hunger strike. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 9:37 am by Max Slater
Mohamed al Mansoor, as well as a retired army colonel, Khalid al Shiba al Nuaimi, began the hunger strike to protest their supposedly... [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 8:11 am by Brittany Felder
[JURIST] A former Guantanamo detainee who was resettled in Uruguay was hospitalized and released on Tuesday after his engagement in a hunger strike left him weak. [read post]
24 Jul 2018, 4:00 pm by Human Rights at Home Blog
Families for Freedom announced last week that ICE detainees had begun a hunger strike to protest inhuman conditions. [read post]
17 Nov 2009, 1:36 pm by immigrationprof
A Message from Monika Kalra Varma, Director, Center for Human Rights RFK Center for Justice & Human Rights, Washington, DC: Our 2008 RFK Human Rights Laureate, Aminatou Haidar, began a hunger strike on November 16th after being forcibly removed from... [read post]
17 Jul 2006, 3:23 am
Hussein began the hunger strike in protest of trial court procedures and the killings of three defense lawyers, which the defendants [read post]
9 Nov 2006, 8:54 am
The NY Times is reporting a hunger strike by Texas death row inmates in response to what the inmates (and watch groups) call inhumane conditions. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 4:07 am by Brandon Gatto
[JURIST] A Palestinian held without trial ended his 66-day hunger strike on Tuesday after Israeli authorities announced his release as part of a deal that avoids judicial review of the Israeli detention policy. [read post]
14 May 2012, 7:30 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
I suppose it’s to be expected, but no less lamented, that mass media coverage of a Palestinian hunger strike will be poor or nonexistent in this country in comparison, say, with the frenzied coverage of a terrorist act committed by a Palestinian or group of Palestinians. [read post]
29 May 2012, 7:41 am by Rebecca DiLeonardo
Al-Khawaja has been on a hunger strike for over three months to protest the imprisonment of Bahraini pro-democracy demonstrators, including himself. [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 6:12 pm
And, frankly, six months is a long time to be on a hunger strike." [read post]
1 Dec 2006, 6:41 am
[JURIST] Serb nationalist war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj [BBC profile; ICTY case backgrounder], who has been on hunger strike [JURIST report] for since Nov. 11, agreed Friday to medical examination by an "independent" team of doctors composed of a Serb, a French and a Russian national. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 5:37 pm
[JURIST] Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive] said Wednesday that he would begin a hunger strike [statement, in Russian] to protest denial of medical treatment to Vasily Aleksanian [statement], an imprisoned former executive and lawyer at the now-defunct Yukos [JURIST news archive] oil company, who has AIDS. [read post]
20 Aug 2015, 8:19 am by Dominic Yobbi
The prisoner, Mohammad Allan, had been on a hunger strike since June 16 in order to protest his prison sentence which was set to last indefinitely. [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 1:54 pm by Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
Hundreds of detainees at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) [official website] in Tacoma, Washington began a hunger strike on Monday [NWDC Resistance press release]. [read post]