In 1981, ten IRA prisoners starved themselves to death at Maze Prison in one of the most politically charged protests of the ...

Palestine Action protesters taking part in a prison hunger strike are likely to die in custody, their lawyers warn. Eight activists are involved in the strike in total with five now in hospital and ...

In Britain, advocates are calling on the immediate release of six political prisoners awaiting trial for supporting the banned protest group Palestine Action. More than 800 doctors, nurses and other ...

California officials say inmates have ended their nearly two-month hunger strike to protest the prison system's isolation policies. More than 30,000 inmates had been refusing meals when the strike ...

British couple Lindsay and Craig Foreman are hunger striking in protest whilst detained in a notorious Iranian prison, but guards are alleged to have tried to played a cruel trick on Lindsay ...

Hundreds of immigrant men at North Lake Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, began a hunger strike on April 20 in an attempt to assert their rights to due process, ...

On Saturday night, the Metropolitan Police violently arrested at least 86 protesters outside Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London. They had gathered peacefully in solidarity with Umer Khalid, a ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison after she began a hunger strike, supporters said Sunday, as Tehran cracks ...