Six University of Rochester students started a hunger strike Oct. 15, demanding the school acknowledge and take steps to distance itself from the starvation and displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.

High school and university educators, staff and students are starting hunger strikes across the US in solidarity with Palestinians, who are undergoing a widespread famine in Gaza, on Wednesday. More ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa(AP) — A Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three ...

Colombo, Oct. 8 (Daily Mirror) - Theripahala Siridhamma Thera of Rathupaswala commenced a hunger strike in Tangalle this afternoon (08) to protest the government’s decision to withdraw the security ...

Concerns have been raised about the welfare of a man charged in relation to this summer’s race riots after he went on hunger strike in Maghaberry Prison. Laurence Creaney, from Portadown, is facing a ...

Jailed Russian opposition activist Mikhail Kriger has been on a dry hunger strike since Friday in protest of his repeated placement in solitary confinement, his supporters said. Kriger, 65, who is ...

A British detainee in Iran has been moved from one prison to another following the deaths of fellow inmates and hunger strikes. Lindsay Foreman, from East Sussex, was transferred from Qarchak Prison ...

Actors Martin and Janet Sheen, John Cusack and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek havesigned an open letter urging Russian prison officials to end the solitary confinement of jailed activist Mikhail ...