INTERNATIONAL British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has ended his hunger strike, according to a note his family received from prison in Egypt on Tuesday. The detainee had been on hunger strike for more than seven months to protest against his imprisonment. The note, addressed to his mother Laila Soueif, said he had "broken" his strike, which he began on 2 April. Last week the imprisoned activist began refusing water too, coinciding with […]
INTERNATIONAL The lawyer for Egypt's jailed hunger-striker Alaa Abdel Fattah said Sunday he had been denied access to his client for a second time in days, as fears for the activist's health mount. Seven months into a hunger strike, Abdel Fattah began refusing water on 6 November as world leaders arrived in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for the COP27 climate summit. Cop27: Hundreds march to free Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel […]
Israeli occupation authorities yesterday cancelled the family visits of Palestinian prisoners being held in the Israeli jails of Hadrim, Rimon and Maggedo. The prisoners, whose families were prevented from visiting them, are the hunger strikers who were isolated in three different prisons. Thirty prisoners are continuing their open-ended hunger strike for the tenth day in protest against their administrative detention; being held without charge or trial. According to the Palestinian Prisoners' […]
A hunger strike in Tora Istiqbal Prison in place since Sunday has escalated to reach nearly 75 per cent of inmates at the prison. We Record human rights organisation said that all prisoners in cell A declared they were going on hunger strike, except for four cells, while 70 per cent of block B announced they would join the strike, 50 per cent of ward C, and 100 per cent […]
Three Palestinian prisoners imprisoned at Ofer Detention Centre, southwest of occupied Ramallah, launched an open-ended hunger strike to protest against their administrative detention, reported the Palestinian news agency WAFA. The Prisoners Affairs Commission announced that Maher Al-Akhras, Mohammad Wahdan, and Musa Zahran, are under administrative detention, a system that allows Israeli authorities to arrest and hold people without charge for prolonged periods. Al-Akhras, a 49-year-old father of six children from […]
Hout Bay youth activist Roscoe Jacobs has suspended his hunger strike after seven days. Jacobs embarked on a hunger strike after President Cyril Ramaphosa failed to respond to his open letter, which was sent on June 17 this year, in which he outlined the struggle for land and adequate housing by residents in Hout Bay. While the details of the meeting are to be confirmed by the presidency, Jacobs confirmed […]
The four Khoisan activists who have been camping outside the Union Buildings since the beginning of this month have vowed to continue with their hunger strike until their demand for an audience with President Jacob Zuma or his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa is met. They have kept up their hunger strike for the past sixteen days and one of them, Chris Martin was admitted to hospital on Wednesday after complaining of […]
Three Palestinians continued their hunger strikes in Israeli prison to demand their release on Thursday, including 21-year-old Anas Shadid who launched a 90-day hunger strike last year, only to be redetained in June. According to Palestinian prisoner solidarity network Samidoun Anas Shadid from Dura village in the Hebron district of the southern West Bank, Ahmad Salameh al-Sawarkeh from Gaza city, and Sheikh Izzadine Amarneh, 55, from the village of Yabad […]
Palestinian prisoner and lawyer Muhammad Allan entered the eighth day of a hunger strike in Israeli jail on Thursday, in protest of his recent re-detention by Israeli forces, according to the al-Quds news website. Al-Quds quoted the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society as saying that Allan launched his strike on June 8, the day he was detained from his home in the Nablus-area village of Einabus during a predawn raid, adding that […]
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