Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair was a Saudi National born in 1965. But how effective is a hunger strike … For immigrants languishing behind bars, a hunger strike is often the sole remaining means of protest against a dehumanizing and unjust system. Other suffragettes in prison also undertook hunger strikes. Heba al-Labadi's attorney said Wednesday that she... EL PASO, Texas (AP) — An Indian immigrant who lost a third of his weight during a 70-day hunger strike over the rejection of his asylum claim won temporary release Thursday after a year in U.S.... CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Two reports of rodents, a video showing hair in French fries and claims of undercooked chicken have prompted some students at South Carolina's revered public military... TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A lawyer for a jailed presidential candidate in Tunisia said his client has started a hunger strike to defend his right to take part in Sunday's election. This is an incomplete list of hunger strikes and people who have conducted a hunger strike. Los nicaragüenses se han estado levantando contra el gobierno durante casi dos años. For nearly two years, Nicaraguans have been rising up against their government. Hunger strikes. MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Sixteen Nicaraguan opposition activists, including 13 social leaders who were arrested as they tried to deliver water to hunger strikers protesting the jailing of... MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Thirteen activists including a Belgian-Nicaraguan student were arrested as they tried to deliver aid to relatives of jailed opponents of President Daniel Ortega’s... AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Israel and Jordan announced Monday they have agreed to release two Jordanians held by Israel without charges for over two months, including one woman suffering serious health... AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan is calling on Israel to release a Jordanian woman detained for over a month without trial on security charges. Several recent articles have addressed the ethics of treating hunger strikers,1 2 but there is less information available on the physiological issues. There are an estimated 25 to 28 detainees striking at the jail in Kearny. The national committee for the families of Palestinian martyrs in the Gaza Strip declared on Saturday starting hunger strike as of tomorrow Sunday to protest the Palestinian Authority’s persistence in suspending their allowances. NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian farmers taking part in more than two months of protest against new agriculture laws began a daylong hunger strike Saturday, as they sought to reaffirm the peaceful nature of their movement following recent violent clashes with police.Farmer leaders said the hunger strike was timed to coincide with the death anniversary of Indian … The twelve included Thomas Ashe, Terence MacSwiney, Michael Fitzgerald, Joe Murphy, Denny Barry, Seán McCaughey, Michael Gaughan and Frank … Fifty-three prisoners at the Santa Clara County Jail stopped eating for nine days to protest coronavirus conditions, stating that they ended their hunger strike … "You really start to feel it on the third or fourth day," Torres said. A leading Indian campaigner has been arrested ahead of a planned hunger strike in protest against a new anti-corruption law. News about Hunger Strikes, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Directed by Steve McQueen. Hunger strikes in different parts of the world are regularly in the news. A group of 10 mothers locked in a Texas detention center with their children vowed Tuesday to launch a hunger strike to demand the release of dozens of women pursuing asylum claims, advocates say. There is a great deal of speculation about the value of fasting. "But … Protesters and police clashed Saturday outside the Bergen County Jail, where three ICE detainees continued a hunger strike over jail … Meanwhile, a recent hunger strike at the Bergen County jail resulted in two detainee releases and several transfers to other facilities, including one as far as Miami. The strike marks the second such protest this month at the family immigrant detention center in Karnes City, Texas. ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian human rights militant who went on a hunger strike after being jailed in March in the southern city of Ghardaia has died. JERUSALEM (AP) — Relatives and supporters of a Palestinian man held without charge by Israel said he was in critical condition in an Israeli hospital Wednesday following a hunger strike of more... TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A leading Iranian human rights lawyer has been hospitalized a month after launching a hunger strike seeking better prison conditions and the release of political prisoners amid... KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — On a sunny June day in Nepal, hundreds of young people in face masks stood a meter apart behind the barbed-wire barricades and rows of riot police guarding the prime... ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A human rights lawyer on hunger strike in a Turkish prison to demand a fair trial for herself and colleagues has died, an attorney’s group said. Marion Dunlop was the first in 1909. The use of a hunger strike as a means of protest in Ireland is a tradition dating to pre-Christian times. EL PASO, Texas (AP) — An attorney for an Indian man seeking asylum in the U.S. says he has been force-fed at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas as they approach their... CAIRO (AP) — Amnesty International says 130 detainees in a notorious Egyptian prison have been on hunger strike for more than six weeks to protest what it calls "cruel and inhumane detention... EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Three Indian nationals seeking asylum in the U.S. have been forced to receive IV drips at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas as they approach their... PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities have won a court order to force-feed an emaciated immigrant who has staged a monthlong hunger strike at an immigration detention center in Arizona as he awaits his... NEW DELHI (AP) — India's Catholic Church, already rocked by allegations that a bishop raped a nun, is facing an uprising by hundreds of priests against one of the country's four cardinals... LONDON (AP) — A British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Iran has ended her hunger strike after 15 days. MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Political violence broke out at a Roman Catholic church in the Nicaraguan city of Masaya on Thursday as government sympathizers attacked parishioners with clubs, machetes... MILAN, N.M. (AP) — A dozen Cuban asylum-seekers detained in a New Mexico have twice been placed in solitary confinement for going on hunger strikes, two of the asylum-seekers said. Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike. The release of dozens of Nicaraguan detainees came amid bolstered United States sanctions and criticism of a crackdown on hunger strikers. ICE detainees at the Essex County jail also began a hunger strike on Monday, the Abolish ICE NY-NJ Coalition said. The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been held in Iran since 2016, has camped out in front of the Iranian Embassy to demand her release. Emmeline Pankhurst's sister Mary Clarke died shortly after being force-fed in prison, and others including La… Other recent hunger-strikes (not by prisoners) by Chief Theresa Spence and others from Canada’s First Nation people are worth noting. (CNN) – Jacob Chansley, a Capitol rioter known as the “QAnon Shaman,” is on an apparent hunger strike. A press conference on the hunger strike is set for Monday. Indian Farmers Start Hunger Strike to Pressure Modi on Reforms By Reuters , Wire Service Content Dec. 21, 2020 By Reuters , Wire Service Content Dec. 21, 2020, at 4:49 a.m. In the early 20th century suffragettes frequently endured hunger strikes in British prisons. Beginning Monday, 23 September, I am going on hunger strike. The Hudson and Essex hunger strikes follow two recent hunger strikes at Bergen County Jail and two hunger strikes in March at the Hudson County Jail. They put the pipe in my nose 3 time. She was released, as the authorities did not want her to become a martyr. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Two Kentucky hunger strikers seeking the firing of officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor ended their protest on Friday after going nearly a month without... DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has begun a hunger strike seeking better prison conditions and the release of political prisoners amid the pandemic, her... LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto says a controversial mural at the school that has been the object of protest for its depictions of black people and Native... ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A second member of a left-wing popular folk music group that is banned in Turkey has died of a hunger strike in protest of the government’s crackdown on the band, the group... ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A member of a popular folk music group that is banned in Turkey died on the 288th day of a hunger strike she and a colleague started while imprisoned to protest the... CAIRO (AP) — Reza Khandan got the word from friends locked away in Iran’s most feared prison, Evin. Farmer leaders said the hunger strike, which coincides with the death anniversary of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, would … Doctors with an interest in human rights may be asked to give independent medical advice to an asylum seeker intending to start a hunger strike. The resignations were in response to a hunger strike by a Buddhist monk who said he would fast until he died unless one of the ministers, as well as two Muslim governors, were removed from office. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the Hudson County jail began a hunger strike Monday, demanding their release amid a coronavirus outbreak at the facility. The prison authorities subjected them to force-feeding, which the suffragettes categorized as a form of torture. Every gesture is difficult for the frail 31-year-old political activist. This is an extreme method, but I am convinced that it is my only way out of my current situation. A prisoner and a guard in their cell block had been removed because they were suspected of... WASHINGTON (AP) — White supremacist mass murderer Dylann Roof staged a hunger strike this month while on federal death row, alleging in letters to The Associated Press that he’s been “targeted by... TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Two French researchers held for months in a Tehran prison on charges of violating Iran's state security laws have petitioned prison authorities to allow them to get married,... ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek high court on Thursday rejected Russian bitcoin fraud suspect Alexander Vinnik's final appeal against his extradition to France, ending a more than two-year legal... CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “expressed outrage” to Egypt’s president on Sunday at the death of an American citizen who insisted he had been wrongfully held in an Egyptian... CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s foreign minister said on Friday she had raised with her Iranian counterpart the fate of an imprisoned Australian-British academic, who has gone on hunger... CAIRO (AP) — Egypt said Tuesday it would investigate the death in custody of a U.S. citizen who had gone on a hunger strike as part of a six-year battle against what he insisted was wrongful... France's government has summoned Iran's ambassador to demand the release of two French researchers held in a notorious Tehran prison, and to express “extreme concern” about the health of one who... PARIS (AP) — A French-Iranian researcher locked up in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison has gone on a hunger strike along with an academic and co-prisoner from Australia, a rights group... PHOENIX (AP) — A Russian immigrant who was deported after staging a monthlong hunger strike this summer at an Arizona detention center resurfaced in the state a month ago when authorities said he... 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