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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 […] ...

Two jailed activists on hunger strike in Bahrain are also refusing fluids in protest at being denied visits from their family, a rights organisation said on Monday. But the Bahraini government said ...

Guwahati: Students of Gauhati University ended their 30-hour hunger strike on Tuesday after the administration assured them that talks would be held on the fee structure of the five-year integrated ...