Tag: Hunger Strike
Inmates begin hunger strike over prison conditions
Agency Report Bahraini detainees are on hunger strike in protest of the conditions in their prisons, according to activists and…
Turkish teachers end hunger strike after 324 days
Two Turkish teachers who were fired from their jobs by decrees issued under the state of emergency have ended their…
Council boss goes on hunger strike
The Sole Administrator of Agege Local Government, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, Oluwagbenga Abiola, has vowed to go hungry in order to…
Indian police re-arrest hunger strike activist
Indian police have re-arrested a human rights campaigner staging a 14-year hunger strike just hours after she was released on…
Jailed British-Iranian woman begins hunger strike
A British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Tehran after trying to attend a men’s volleyball match has gone on hunger strike to…
S. Korea ferry victim’s father ends 45-day hunger strike
The father of one of the high school students killed in South Korea’s ferry disaster on Thursday abandoned a hunger…
India court orders release of 14-year hunger striker
An Indian court Tuesday ordered the release of a woman who has staged a 14-year hunger strike in protest at…
Bangladesh police tear gas garment workers on hunger strike
Bangladesh police on Thursday fired tear gas and stormed a garment factory in the capital Dhaka where workers had been…
63 Palestinian prisoners suspend hunger strike
Sixty-three Palestinian prisoners have suspended the hunger strike which they have observed in Israeli jails since late April, one of…
Ex-Mali coup leader ends hunger strike
The leader of a military coup that plunged Mali into chaos two years ago, allowing Islamists to seize its desert…
Mali’s ex-coup leader on hunger strike
(Reuters) – The leader of a military coup that plunged Mali into chaos two years ago and allowed Islamists to…
UK deports Nigerian asylum seeker on hunger strike
A Nigerian failed asylum seeker who has been on hunger strike for around 100 days was removed from Britain on…
Guantanamo prisoners on hunger strike
More than half of the men held at the Guantanamo detention camp have joined an escalating hunger strike to protest…
Hungarian Embarks On Hunger Strike
In protest against non payment of his nine months salary by Kaduna Furniture and Carpet Company, KFCC, a Hungarian Thomas…