Since Monday 24th October 52 people (out of the 65 total in their block), all of them immigrant detainees, have begun a hunger strike in block 10 of the central prison. Their crime: Their illegal ...

Laila Soueif, the British-born mother of the Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El Fattah, is demanding the U.K. do more to ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures, so the saying goes, and for the people of Gaza, times have never been as ...

In response to MoralesâÄô five-day hunger strike, the Bolivian congress has agreed to pass ... In both India and Ireland, there are early records of people fasting on the doorsteps of their debtors in ...

which they see as retribution for their involvement in the hunger strike. Robinson found his cell in a “disgusting” state when he returned to it on Oct. 11 after spending 19 days in the infirmary. The ...

"Not for the first time, there are people at Wethersfield on hunger strike over the conditions at the base. "The Home Office were warned that putting hundreds of asylum seekers in a former ...

Sabiha Temizkan (R) says she is very worried about the decline in her mother's health "Mum, don't leave me!" Sabiha Temizkan tweeted, in a desperate plea to her imprisoned mother Leyla Guven, now ...