hunger strike

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday called for the immediate release of two Canadians now on hunger strike after…

A prominent Egyptian blogger has begun a hunger strike in protest at his detention and to raise awareness of what…

Thirty members of the April 6 Youth Movement declared a hunger strike on Thursday evening in protest against the detention…

Several political parties, labor unions and activist groups are set to convene at Al-Azhar Mosque Friday to express their solidarity…

Some 800 Palestinians serving time in Israeli jails were on Tuesday refusing food in solidarity with four fellow inmates who…

Seven of the teachers staging a sit-in in front of the Cabinet in Cairo began a hunger strike on Wednesday…

The number of hunger strikers in front of the Cabinet building rose on Saturday to 45, as part of a…

After two weeks of hunger strikes, 10 detainees from the last month’s Abbasseya clashes have begun refusing water. This comes after…

Despite two weeks of ongoing protests at the country’s main public library and 15 employees at the organization going on…

Jailed Bahraini activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja ended a more than three-month-long hunger strike on Monday after what he described as his…