hunger strike

Pro-Palestinian protesters taking part in an encampment at Princeton University began a hunger strike to raise awareness for starving people in Gaza.

Illegal aliens in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) custody have gone on a hunger strike to protest what they claim are inadequate living conditions in the sanctuary state of California. 

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili — who has been imprisoned in Georgia since October 2021 on corruption charges he denies — launched a hunger strike on Monday to protest the Georgian government’s “treatment of him,” particularly poor medical care, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported.

Some 50 illegal immigrants who have occupied a church in Brussels, Belgium, demanding residency have complained that now with winter approaching, the church is too cold for them. 

The family of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, detained since May 2020 for her reporting from the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, is warning that she is severely underweight from a hunger strike and “may not survive the coming cold winter.”

Russian prison officials said Monday that dissident Alexei Navalny has been moved to a prison hospital to receive “vitamin therapy” for his ailing health. Navalny’s physician, Yaroslav Ashikhmin, said his patient could “die at any moment.”

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced on Wednesday he is on a hunger strike to protest the lack of medical treatment he is receiving in Russia’s prison system.

The health of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is “deteriorating” from a prolonged hunger strike she started months ago while in jail to protest a four-year prison term handed to her by Chinese state authorities in December for her reporting on Wuhan’s initial coronavirus outbreak last year.

A group of ISIS-affiliated women have gone on a hunger strike in Syria after demanding the French government let them back into France.

Far-left extremist terrorist Cesare Battisti has gone on hunger strike over prison conditions after earlier this year demanding release due to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Battisti, who was extradited from Brazil by President Jair Bolsonaro in 2019, made his announcement

Turkish authorities released human rights lawyer Aytac Unsal from jail on Thursday after his 213-day hunger strike left him critically ill.

Cuban ecologist and human rights activist Dr. Ariel Ruiz Urquiola began a hunger strike Monday before the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights offices in Geneva, asserting that the Castro regime deliberately infected him with HIV and consistently persecuted him and his family.

A police siege of the Catholic Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua, ended on Wednesday after a mob loyal to Communist dictator Daniel Ortega broke into the building and attacked opposition hunger strikers.

Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó’s deputy, Edgar Zambrano, has been on a hunger strike for the past nine days following his incarceration in May by the Maduro regime, his party’s general secretary revealed on Thursday.

A group of 89 pro-democracy dissidents, members of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), asked President Donald Trump in an open letter published Monday for his support for their campaign against a Communist Party referendum to impose a new constitution on the country.

The head of the dissident organization Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) announced Friday that the number of pro-democracy activists staging a hunger strike against the regime’s violence has risen to 43 people, following a week of raids of UNPACU members’ homes in which police beat and arbitrarily imprisoned many of its leaders.

Leyla Guven, a Turkish parliamentarian from the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), has been imprisoned for over a year and engaged in a hunger strike for the past 77 days.

A Cuban rapper who sewed his mouth shut last month and is refusing to eat is reportedly in a “delicate” physical state, forcing the repressive communist regime to consider moving him out of prison into a nearby hospital.

Open borders activists and celebrities are going on a 24-day hunger strike to protest the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy on illegal immigration at the southern border.

Illegal aliens shielded from deportation under the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are staging a hunger strike in the days leading up to Thanksgiving Day.

The Nigerian man who is serving multiple life sentences for attempting to detonate a bomb hidden in his underwear on an airliner sued the Justice Department over his treatment behind bars.

Dallas police arrested the Texas House Democrat voted “Freshman of the Year” late Tuesday night for driving while intoxicated.

Failed Fatah terrorist Marwan Barghouti said Tuesday the Palestinian prisoners’ strike had not ended, but had rather been put on hold and could be resumed at any time should Israel not live up to its “promises.”

JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas invited the mother of four jailed terrorists to a special meeting at his office to reassure her that her sons’ “just cause” and his desire to “ease their suffering” was high on his agenda.

Members of the Yale College Republicans held a barbecue on Friday next to eight graduate student teachers on a hunger strike over the Yale University’s refusal to negotiate with its newly formed union.

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” network contributor Geraldo Rivera criticized a so-called “symbolic hunger strike” at Yale University. According to reports, the strike involves students eating when they are hungry. “Political correctness and the symbolic hunger strike —

Democrats and open border advocates are staging a hunger strike in Texas against the State’s proposed anti-sanctuary city bill. Its backers are asking for support using #FastAgainstSB4.

Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan vowed on Tuesday not to negotiate with hundreds of Palestinian detainees on the second day of a hunger strike led by popular leader Marwan Barghouti.

Illegal immigrants detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, stopped a hunger strike shortly before Easter Sunday. The detainees demanded more money for doing chores, better food, and medical care.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s immigration and asylum office says 94 of 102 asylum-seekers detained in a closed reception center have launched a hunger strike, demanding to be set free.

Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas has ended his 23rd hunger strike after 54 days, calling it a “victory” after reports circulated that the European Union is considering making any economic deals with Cuba contingent on the communist government respecting human rights.

“My father has been on hunger strike for 49 days. At this point, any hospital would taken him in urgently, but not in Cuba,” wrote the daughter of Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas on Wednesday, who has continued to refused to eat unless the communist dictatorship agrees to stop using violence against dissenters.

World-renowned Cuban dissident activist Guillermo Fariñas began his 46th day on his 24th hunger strike Monday, a strike he has said he will end only when dictator Raúl Castro agrees to an end to the use of state violence against political dissidents.

A Pennsylvania college professor is embarking on a hunger strike because the college’s president denied him tenure.

Cuban dissident activist Guillermo Fariñas has rejected a plea from the second-in-command at the U.S. embassy in Havana to cease his now 40-day-old hunger strike, asserting that the communist Castro government has clearly decided to no longer intervene and to allow him to die.

World-renowned human rights activist Guillermo Fariñas is in “critical” condition on the 25th day of his 24th hunger strike, which he began after being beaten and tortured by Raúl Castro’s political police.