This was far from the first hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC), one of the country’s largest immigrati ...

Hunger strikes are a recurring form of protest among jailed Cuban dissidents. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Now going into her third week, local activist Diane Wilson is continuing her hunger strike outside of Dow Chemical.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dozen female relatives of Venezuelan political prisoners are staging a hunger strike outside the Zona 7 prison in Caracas ...

Nearly 300 political prisoners held at El Rodeo I prison outside Caracas have launched a hunger strike in demanding their ...

A Cuban activist jailed for putting up anti-government posters and defacing a Fidel Castro billboard suffered cardiac arrest after 48 days on hunger strike, NGOs said Thursday. Roilan Alvarez Rensoler ...

A longtime environmental activist has entered the second week of a hunger strike outside Dow’s Seadrift Operations facility, protesting what she says are plans that could threaten the […] ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Relatives of Venezuelan prisoners went on hunger strike on Saturday to demand the freedom of their loved ones as politicians in the South American nation debate an amnesty ...

UN experts on Friday called for the protection of eight pro-Palestine activists on hunger strike while imprisoned in the UK. The eight individuals began their hunger strike on November 2. The experts ...