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12 Apr 2017, 1:54 pm
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]
7 Jun 2014, 3:18 pm
Some sources estimate [AFP report] that over 290 Palestinians detained in Israel are on hunger strike, with about 70 requiring medical treatment to live. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 6:47 am
Among those activists, eight are believed to be on life threatening hunger strikes, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, Asma Jahangir [profile, PDF]. [read post]
27 Feb 2006, 8:19 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] has ended a hunger strike to protest his trial after fasting for 11 days, according to his chief lawyer Monday. [read post]
5 Jan 2013, 9:34 am
This opinion piece by Peter Worthington disfavorably compares Chief Spence’s strike with IRA hunger strikes, concluding that Chief Spence’s strike is not genuine like the IRA strikes. [read post]
5 Jan 2013, 9:34 am
This opinion piece by Peter Worthington disfavorably compares Chief Spence’s strike with IRA hunger strikes, concluding that Chief Spence’s strike is not genuine like the IRA strikes. [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 9:46 am
A few months ago I saw “Hunger,” a disturbing movie about the hunger strike of IRA member Bobbie Sands in Maze Prison in Northern Ireland — a hunger strike that ended in his death. [read post]
4 Jun 2022, 12:34 am
Mohamed Shalaby and Emir Nader report for the BBC that asylum seekers in the United Kingdom have been on a hunger strike in protest of their pending deportations to Rwanda. [read post]
11 Mar 2021, 7:26 am
Koufodinas is reported to be on a hunger strike for over two months now. [read post]
5 Oct 2015, 5:37 am
[JURIST] The last remaining British Guantanamo detainee is on a hunger strike, the Daily Mail reported [text] Saturday. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 4:54 am
[JURIST] More than 350 Taliban [JURIST news archive] inmates began a hunger strike on Sunday at the Sarposa prison in Kandahar [JURIST news archive] province in Afghanistan. [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 11:41 am
[JURIST] The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) [advocacy website] reported on Saturday that more detainees have joined a hunger strike [press release] in protest of ongoing trials related to recent pro-democracy protests. [read post]
19 May 2010, 1:11 pm
[JURIST] Former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday ended his two-day hunger strike after a spokesperson for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev [official website] indicated that Medvedev was familiar with a complaint Khodorkovsky made regarding the three-month extension of his detention. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 12:02 am
[JURIST] The US military announced on Monday that the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] hunger strike has increased to 42 detainees. [read post]
1 Nov 2023, 9:00 am
" The post Students at UC-Berkeley Threaten Hunger Strike to Reinstate Prof Accused of Stalking first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 12:17 pm
Further to this post, in a melodramatic video Matt O'Connor of Fathers 4 Justice says he "will begin a hunger strike for equal parenting rights on behalf of fathers and grandparents on Sunday 10th July 2011": [read post]
2 Apr 2021, 1:41 pm
” In his handwritten letter from March 31, Navalny wrote: Why do prisoners go on hunger strikes? [read post]
26 Aug 2005, 6:12 am
[JURIST] Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky [JURIST news archive; defense website] has ended his four-day hunger strike [JURIST report], his lawyer announced Friday. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 3:49 pm
" _____'s reasons for going on hunger strike were not made public but his indeterminate sentence meant he faced the rest of his life behind bars. [read post]
11 Jan 2022, 3:56 pm
Arizona college students threatened to go on a second hunger strike if Congress doesn’t pass the Democrat-led voting legislation by Jan. 17. [read post]
