hunger strike

More than a dozen U.S. state lawmakers and activists—including actress Cynthia Nixon—started a 5-day hunger strike outside the White House in Washington on Monday, calling for a permanent cease-fire in ...

The 66-year-old was sentenced to prison for a year and eight months after a closed-door trial the same ...

An Oakland-based mom-and-pop landlord is donating thousands of dollars he raised during a three-day hunger strike this week ...

Beijing is hitting back at Washington’s sweeping sanctions by bringing a dispute against the United States to the ...

Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine jailed in Russia, has ended a hunger strike and is being treated ...

LONDON—The husband of UK charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained for more than five years in ...

NICE, France—A French hospital worker has said he is on hunger strike to protest against a government rule ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan—A Chinese citizen journalist serving a four-year sentence after reporting on the early stage of the COVID-19 ...

Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer and citizen journalist, is 6 feet tall yet currently weighs less than ...

Last summer, a 24-year-old fiddle teacher walked more than 600 kilometres from his home in northern Saskatchewan to ...

MOSCOW—Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday he has started a hunger strike to protest authorities’ failure ...

Guo Baojun, a 63-year-old man passed away in custody after being held for 14 months for his faith ...

When Li Jingsheng was 5 years old, he was diagnosed with congenital heart disease complicated by a condition ...

The condition of a Palestinian journalist on a 48-day hunger strike in an Israeli jail is deteriorating, the ...

Israel's parliament passed a contentious law on Thursday that would permit the force-feeding of inmates on hunger strike, ...

A Palestinian held without charges by Israel for the past year is ending a 55-day hunger strike and ...

Edited on Dec. 8 with changes to the upcoming Admiralty clearing. Three Hong Kong pro-democracy movement student protesters ...

Don't expect the Hong Kong government to give in, CE Leung Chun-ying tells student protesters.

A Chinese lawyer successfully defended his right to practice law by going on a hunger strike.

Two Members of Parliament in Canada have made a public and forceful call for the Chinese authorities to ...

Luo Zhizhao, the master chef who went on hunger strike, talks about his experiences as a prisoner of ...