Hunger strikes

February 24, 2013

Thousands of Palestinian prisoners stage hunger strike

Some 3,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails were staging a one-day hunger strike Sunday in protest at the death of…

October 6, 2012

Bahraini Shiite rights activist Nabeel Rajab has gone on hunger strike, a local rights group said Saturday, just two days…

July 10, 2012

June 21, 2012

MANAMA, Bahrain — A doctor sentenced on charges of aiding anti-government protests in Bahrain went on a hunger strike Thursday.…

June 11, 2012

Dozens of protesters continued their sit-in outside the Cabinet building on Monday, on their sixth day of a hunger strike…

June 3, 2012

Palestinian prisoners in Israel are threatening to re-launch a hunger strike, a Palestinian official said on Sunday, blaming Israel for…

May 17, 2012

Jailed Bahraini dissident Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, on hunger strike for more than three months, is well but still continues his fast…

May 15, 2012

Protesters arrested during the violence that erupted in late April near the Defense Ministry in Abbasseya are planning to start…

May 12, 2012

With the hunger strike of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel gathering momentum, I wanted to know names, look closely at faces,…

May 9, 2012

Several dozen Palestinians on Wednesday blocked staff from entering UN offices in Ramallah to demand that UN chief Ban Ki-moon…