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15 Dec 2020, 1:05 pm
Detained individuals have suffered severe pain and medical neglect culminating in sometimes months-long hunger strikes, deaths, amputations and suicides. [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 9:37 am
6 pedestrians were injured in Manhattan after a driver plowed into a group of protesters last week (see video below). 52 year old Kathleen Casillo, from Queens, was driving a 2019 BMW Sedan near the intersection of 39th Street and Third Ave when she crossed road with a group of a protesters marching to support a group of ICE detainees observing a hunger strike at a detention center in Bergen, New Jersey. [read post]
7 Nov 2020, 2:25 pm
She said: The abuse, neglect, and degradation our clients regularly face in ICE custody have only worsened since the pandemic began: This year alone, we’ve seen allegations of sexual abuse, increased use of force, rampant use of solitary confinement, attempts by ICE to minimize its role in the deaths of detained people, and hunger strikes to protest the horrendous conditions. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 10:58 am
Her family says that she has been on a hunger strike for the past month and has suffered electrocution, whippings and sexual harassment. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 4:00 am
In a final plea for fair trials for herself and her unfairly jailed colleagues Ebru Timtik began a hunger strike in February 2020. [read post]
24 Oct 2020, 9:50 pm
This post is in honor of the Palestinian political prisoner, Maher al-Akhras, who has been on a hunger strike for 86 days. * * * “Administrative detention has constituted a core of Israel’s 1,500 occupation laws that apply to Palestinians only, and which are not subject to any type of civilian or public review. [read post]
24 Oct 2020, 4:07 am
We’re in the midst of a hunger crisis in America.... [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 11:12 am
I contributed a paper on "Hunger Strikes in Prison: the Legal Issues" to a University College Cork conference this week.The conference was "Terence MacSwiney, Cork Men’s Gaol, and the Political Hunger Strike, 1920-2020" and it was organised by the School of History.My paper draws on themes discussed in this paper: Gautam Gulati, Darius Whelan, Eimear Spain, David Meagher & Colum Dunne, ‘Hunger… [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 11:12 am
I contributed a paper on "Hunger Strikes in Prison: the Legal Issues" to a University College Cork conference this week.The conference was "Terence MacSwiney, Cork Men’s Gaol, and the Political Hunger Strike, 1920-2020" and it was organised by the School of History.My paper draws on themes discussed in this paper: Gautam Gulati, Darius Whelan, Eimear Spain, David Meagher & Colum Dunne, ‘Hunger… [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 3:01 pm
She was a tireless litigator and lobbyist, who scorned more radical tactics such as chaining herself to the White House fence, hunger strikes or rioting. [read post]
4 Sep 2020, 11:31 am
A human rights activist in Iran’s Evin prison has been on a hunger strike for the past three weeks, reports Deutsche Welle. [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 11:26 am
In Louisiana, a group of detained Cameroonians have now been on a hunger strike related to conditions in the Pine Prairie ICE detention center for more than three weeks. [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 9:02 am
” Suffragettes marched on Washington, stood in picket lines in front of the White House, went on hunger strikes, wound up in jail because of their actions and endured forced feedings behind bars. [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 9:02 am
” Suffragettes marched on Washington, stood in picket lines in front of the White House, went on hunger strikes, wound up in jail because of their actions and endured forced feedings behind bars. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 10:55 am
Suffragists had marched en masse, been arrested for illegally voting and picketing outside the White House, gone on hunger strikes and endured brutal beatings in prison – all in the name of the American woman’s right to vote. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 10:55 am
Suffragists had marched en masse, been arrested for illegally voting and picketing outside the White House, gone on hunger strikes and endured brutal beatings in prison – all in the name of the American woman’s right to vote. [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 9:15 am
When the coronavirus started, we went on a hunger strike because they weren’t giving us masks. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 12:41 pm
Paul, a suffragist who’d waged hunger strikes and endured forced feedings in jail so women could get ... [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 12:25 pm
The crew members had to organize a hunger strike to bring attention to their mistreatment. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 1:02 pm
Several images and videos of the hunger strike were posted on Twitter and Facebook this week. [read post]
