Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah has entered an open-ended hunger strike until he is released from prison, his family said in a statement posted on Facebook yesterday. The 31-year-old, convicted of violating a controversial protest law that…
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In India, love tests world’s longest hunger strike
Irom Sharmila vows to keep up her fast, now in its 11th year, to protest a law granting legal immunity to India’s armed forces. But Irom, who has a suitor, also dreams of a normal life, and love. Reporting…
Hunger strike underway in Insein prison
Fifteen political prisoners in Rangoon’s Insein jail have gone on hunger strike to protest a decision not to overturn a ruling that bars the majority of prisoners from the right to have their sentences reduced. The 15 are complaining…
Egyptian teachers call for mass protest Saturday
Egyptian educational groups and unions called for mass protests next Saturday demanding the dismissal of Minister of Education Ahmed Gamal Eddin Moussa and purging the educational system of corrupt figures. The teachers urged political movements and parties, doctors and the…
Egypt military court ‘toying with life’ of jailed blogger
Amnesty International today urged Egypt’s military leadership to immediately and unconditionally release a jailed blogger after the military appeals court in Cairo ordered a retrial of his case. Maikel Nabil Sanad, a 26-year-old blogger, is in very poor health…
Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike resonates worldwide
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons are currently on the 18th day of a hunger strike that began on 27 September, calling for better prisoner rights and improved incarceration conditions. The Palestinian Prisoners Movement first appeared on…
In India, 11-Year Hunger Strike Over Military Violence
Irom Chanu Sharmila on a hunger strike in Imphal, India, where she is force-fed through a tube in her nose. She arrived in an ambulance, thin and ghostly pale, a tube dangling from her nostril. Flanked by police…
EGYPT: Imprisoned pacifist blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad on hunger strike moved to solitary confinement
Maikel Nabil SanadMaikel Nabil Sanad, the imprisoned pacifist blogger and conscientious objector sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for «insulting the military» on 10 April 2011 (see co-alert, 11 April 2011), began a hunger strike in protest against his continued imprisonment…
Freed Iranian Human Rights Activist Tells Amnesty International of Continuing Hunger Strike Over Prisoners’ Deaths
(New York) — Emadeddin Baghi, one of Iran’s most outspoken human rights activists, told Amnesty International Tuesday following his release from prison that his perspective on his freedom is subdued as many others remain unjustly imprisoned in Iran. When freed,…
Bahrain hunger striker sees husband for first time in two months
Zainab al-Khawaja allowed to spend six minutes with her husband Wafu Almajed, who was arrested in April The young Bahraini woman who became a prominent voice of the Arab uprisings after going on hunger strike to protest at the detention…