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Fame pays off for refugee
Tehrān :: Iran | 9 months ago
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Being famous has paid off for Iranian refugee Ali Panah but those close to him say his controversial hunger strike and conversion to Christianity was no gimmick. Mr Panah was classified as a refugee by the Refugee Status Appeals Authority yesterday after...
Tags: hunger strike, Refugee Status Appeals Authority, appeal authority
Guantanamo detainee close to returning to UK
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility Binyan Mohamed has staged a hunger strike and claims he has been tortured at Guantanamo Bay A UK resident held in Guantanamo Bay for four years could return to Britain within days after the Government said that Foreign Office officials would be visiting...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Binyam Mohamed, Britain, Barack Obama, guantanamo detainees, Cuba, British, Brit Gitmo Detainee Aided, Canada, hunger strike
Conn. wants to force-feed hunger strikers
Hartford :: CT :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility A Connecticut court has heard arguments on whether prison inmates on hunger strikes can be forcibly fed. The inmate in the case, William Coleman, 48, was a witness at Tuesday's hearing, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant reported. Superior Court Judge James...
Tags: Connecticut, hunger strike, William Coleman, prison inmates, Hartford Superior Court, prison officials
Sri Lanka: Muslims in Potthuvil to go on hunger strike
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 10 months ago
Credibility Muslims in Potthuvil to go on hunger strike [TamilNet, Sunday, 01 February 2009, 10:27 GMT] Muslims in Poththuvil will go on a protest hunger strike Monday in front of Poththuvil Prethesa Sabai, demanding the immediate release of the 30 Muslim villagers...
Tags: Poththuvil Muslims, Poththuvil Prethesa Sabai, Poththuvil Pratheasa Chapai, hunger strike, muslims men
Jailed Brit's Hunger Strike Fight
Hartford :: CT :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility UK, Friday January 30, 2009 A British man on hunger strike in an American jail has begun a court battle to prevent authorities force-feeding him. William Coleman's lawyers said his protest method was the same used by Gandhi William Coleman, 48, originally...
Tags: William Coleman, hunger strike
Ivan Milat on hunger strike
Goulburn :: Australia | 10 months ago
Credibility S most notorious serial killer is on hunger strike after earlier cutting off one of his fingers with a plastic knife. Ivan Milat, who was jailed for life in 1996 for the murder of seven backpackers, cut off his little finger on Monday and placed it in...
Tags: Ivan Milat, hunger strike, Goulburn, supermax jailed, little finger
For the 70 Gitmo Prisoners on a Hunger Strike, Closing Gitmo Can't Wait a Year
San Juan :: Argentina | 10 months ago
Credibility Once again, you are participating in a hunger strike; using the only tool you have -- your own body -- to cry out...And now they insert a tube into your nose, delivering food to keep you alive three times a day. You are being kept alive so that you can...
Tags: hunger strike, Barack Obama
Burmese monks and activists tortured
Yangon :: Myanmar | 10 months ago
Credibility Myanmar's military junta is making political prisoners live in unhealthy living conditions, depriving them of adequate food and medical care and denying their families the right to visit by transferring them to remote prisons, this according to prisoners'...
Tags: prisoner, hunger strike
Activists plan hunger strike for Zimbabwe change
Harare :: Zimbabwe | 10 months ago
Credibility The church, draped Wednesday in anti-Mugabe banners as well as the drying laundry of the hundreds of Zimbabweans living there, will be the headquarters for the hunger strike. The pastor said he sent his family into hiding before coming to Johannesburg...
Tags: zimbabwe, change in zimbabwe, Zimbabwean, South African Gender Commission, hunger strike, Robert Mugabe, Nelson Mandela, african leaders, Graca Machel, archbishop desmond
Moms staging hunger strike hold Miami rally
Miami :: FL :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Two mothers who are staging a hunger strike to protest cuts to public education funding are holding a rally Monday in South Florida. Malexys Morales and Bibiana Salmon haven't eaten since Jan. 12. The pair has camped out near Ronald Reagan Doral Senior...
Tags: education funding, hunger strike
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