Euronews
| May 23, 2013
A Russian court has rejected jailed Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina's bid for parole, citing infractions like unmade beds and letter-writing during mealtimes. Alyokhina went on hunger strike to protest being denied the right to attend the hearing.
Telegraph.co.uk
| May 23, 2013
A founder of the Code Pink anti-war group was removed from the audience at President Obama's counterterror speech after repeatedly interrupting him, urging him to finally close Guantanamo Bay. Obama went off-script to acknowledge "the voice of tha...
Reuters
| May 22, 2013
An imprisoned member of the punk rock band Pussy Riot is on a hunger strike to protest a Russian court's decision not to allow her to attend her own parole hearing. Maria Alyokhina, watching the trial from prison via video link, ordered her defen...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 14, 2013
Guards have swept through communal cellblocks at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and moved the inmates into one-man cells in an attempt to end a hunger strike that began in February. Attorneys, military officials and human rights monitors have a...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 12, 2013
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has urged US president Barack Obama to do more to help the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Peter Maurer highlighted the issue of force-feeding inmates who are currently on a mass hunger strike...
Democracy Now!
| Mar 13, 2013
As more than 100 Guantánamo Bay prisoners enter the fifth week of their hunger strike, the Obama administration has defended their detention at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. A number of prisoners have been ...
Democracy Now!
| Mar 13, 2013
More than 100 detainees held in the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay are reportedly entering their fifth week of a hunger strike sparked by deteriorating conditions. News of the hunger strike first emerged last week but it appears the...
Al Jazeera
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Mosaic
| Feb 26, 2013
The death of a 30-year-old Palestinian Arafat Jaradat in an Israeli jail last Saturday, which has led to allegations he was tortured, has placed the case of Palestinian prisoners under the spotlight. Dozens of detainees remain on hunger strike in ...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 25, 2013
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are burying a man who died in an Israeli jail. Israel says Arafat Jaradat died of a heart attack, but the Palestinian Authority says the autopsy report showed that he was tortured. His death has sparked days...
Al Jazeera
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Mosaic
| Feb 14, 2013
Dozens of Palestinians gathered in al-Beira and Gaza to hold solidarity events with prisoners in Israeli jails who are on hunger strike, most notably, Samer al-Issawi who has been on hunger strike for 206 days. Al Jazeera Arabic reports.
— May 31, 2012 at 03:43 am
...By Talgha Bendie Akram Alrikhawi, 39 from the Gaza Strip has been detained by Israel since the 7th of June 2004. Alrikhawi has been on hunger st...
— May 14, 2012 at 08:51 am
— May 16, 2012 at 01:57 pm
A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most hunger strikers will take liquids but not solid food.
In cases where an entity has or is able to obtain custody of the hunger striker, the hunger strike is often terminated by the custodial entity through the use of force-feeding.
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