'Pushed to breaking point': Mass hunger strike at Egyptian prison
Inmates have been on hunger strike for more than six weeks, Amnesty International has said.
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Inmates have been on hunger strike for more than six weeks, Amnesty International has said.
Nazanin was sentenced to five years for allegedly trying to topple the Iranian government.
Earlier this week, McDonald said that a ‘chaotic brexit’ is not the time to seek a united Ireland.
He demanded to be treated as a political prisoner.
The deal was brokered by the Red Cross.
“The idea was to break them, make them hungry,” said a spokesperson for the group.
Lynn Boylan says Halawa has been ‘on hunger strikes on and off’ throughout his detention.
His family say his heart problem has deteriorated.
Andrei Krekov said he went on hunger strike after being placed in solitary confinement.
The man was admitted to hospital yesterday after 35 days on hunger strike.
She claims the military is refusing to treat her gender dysphoria.
The process was known as ‘shedding’.
The Dublin teenager is now on hunger strike, and says he will remain so until he is released.
The teenager said in a letter that he is “hit for every word I say that the officer doesn’t like” and “not allowed hug [his] own mother.”
The call comes amid reports that the three protesters who had been on hunger strike – Paul “Ollie” Moore, Derek Byrne and Damien O’Neill – had ended their action.
Michael Kilgannon says he is feeling “fine” after 48 hours.
The inmates broke into the prison infirmary and drank a cocktail of grain alcohol and prescription drugs.
Gary Coleman plans to stay on the hunger strike until 25 October, when a march is planned against the charges in Cork.
Another female activist arrested after a protest in June is currently on hunger strike.
A small number of residents at the Limerick centre had gone on hunger strike.
The teenager has been in an Egyptian prison for a year.
The mass murderer has described the conditions in prison as ‘torture’.
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Three Guantanamo detainees want force-feeding banned as they say it is ‘inhumane’.
“Without water a person dies in a few days during a hunger strike,” said 23-year-old Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova says women are forced to work 16-17 hours a day, get just four hours sleep, and endure repeated abuse at the prison camp.
Detainees eligible for release from Guantanamo Bay are caught in limbo: the US won’t accept them and foreign countries are reluctant to take in refugees who have been incarcerated with terrorists, writes Scott Fitzsimmons.
Tony Rochford – who spent over three weeks on hunger strike over the new tax earlier this summer – is organising a new protest for the end of the Dáil recess.
The trial of John Dundon, who is accused of the murder of rugby player Shane Geoghegan in Limerick, had been adjourned for two weeks after a key witness was hospitalised.
Property tax hunger striker Rochford had not eaten for 23 days before last night.
Tony Rochford is on his 23rd day without food and feels his right to work is being denied.
The more than 100 detainees on hunger strike at the detention facility have said that they do not trust military doctors who engaged in painful force-feeding.
John Dundon is due before the Special Criminal Court today charged in connection with the 2008 murder of rugby player Shane Geoghegan.
Maria Alyokhina has announced an end to her hunger strike after 11 days as the prison has met her demands.
The 24-year-old is one of two members of the opposition punk band serving two years in remote prison camps over an anti-Kremlin stunt in a church last year.
Almost two-thirds of the prisoners at Guantanamo are on a hunger strike, which entered its fourth month earlier this week.
Armen Nazaryan is making the stance in protest at wrestling being dumped from the 2020 Olympics.
FG chairman Charlie Flanagan said Dessie Ellis’s refusal to discuss British claims that he was involved in IRA murders were “utterly disgraceful”.
A newly-released British document claims that Ellis was involved in the murder of 50 people by the IRA in the north and south during the Troubles but he has rejected these claims.
Emanuele Pesoli has chained himself to the headquarters of Italy’s soccer federation.