Gaza Faces Fresh Hunger Crisis as Israel Readies Ban on U.N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees
In Gaza, leaders of Hamas say they will provide the names of four more Israeli hostages scheduled for release. Under terms of ...
'Keir Starmer must step in to save my son before time runs out', hunger strike mum warns
Laila Soueif, who has been on hunger strike for 117 days over the failure to secure Alaa Abd El-Fattah's release from an ...
'Alaa is released, or I collapse' : A mother's hundred day hunger strike for her son's freedom
A mother from Streatham has been on hunger strike for more than a hundred days to press for her son's release from an ...
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Jailed writer’s plight a ‘focus’ of Lammy’s meeting with Egyptian counterpart
Laila Soueif has critcised the Prime Minister for not having ‘deigned to reply’ to a letter she sent him about her son’s ...
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Tunisia: Hunger strike as a last resort against crackdown
For Sihem Bensedrine, a 74-year-old Tunisian rights activist, being in her cell at the Manouba women's prison became unbearable last week. "I can't stand the injustice that's hitting me anymore," she ...
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UK foreign minister in Egypt to push for activist's release
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy visits Cairo on Thursday to press local officials to release a jailed British-Egyptian ...
Prison company retaliated against detained immigrants, labor board says
Private prison company GEO Group has been accused by the National Labor Relations Board of retaliating against immigrant ...
UN experts urge Thailand not to deport dozens of Uyghurs to China where they face ‘real risk of torture’
International pressure is mounting on Thailand – including from the new US administration – over the fate of dozens of Uyghur ...
‘This may be my last message’: Uyghurs stage hunger strike over China deportation
Forty-eight Uyghurs detained in Thailand for nearly 11 years are on hunger strike to protest against imminent deportation to ...
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Yianni Melas, the Greek Modern-Day Indiana Jones of Gems
World-acclaimed gems explorer and human rights activist Yianni Melas has been budded the modern-day Indiana Jones of gems.
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Thailand Moves to Deport Uyghur Detainees to China
On Sunday, researcher Nyrola Elimä reported that authorities in Thailand’s immigration detention center have separated 48 Uyghurs from other prisoners and prepared the former group for possible ...
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Former Australian prison mate of jailed Egyptian-British dissident, Alaa Abdel Fattah, goes on hunger strike
Peter Greste, who was jailed for 400 days in Egypt, has joined Abd el-Fattah's mother in going on a hunger strike for the ...