The mother of jailed Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah was taken to hospital on Monday night as she neared the ...

Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian businessman and philanthropist jailed in Azerbaijan, has launched another hunger strike to ...

Laila Soueif’s son Alaa Abdel Fattah has completed a five-year sentence in Egypt but has not yet been released ...

After spending nearly a year in a Bolivian prison for a crime he says he did not commit, New York’s Jacob Ostreicher has started a hunger strike to expedite his release. NEW YORK (JTA ...

KOZHIKODE: Roopesh, the Maoist leader lodged in Central Jail in Viyyur, has decided to go on an indefinite hunger strike from ...

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Abd el Fattah's former prison mate, Australian journalist Peter Greste, joined Soueif in the hunger strike for three weeks last month. On the 100th day of her protest, Ms Soueif said ...

A mother on long-term hunger strike in a bid to free her jailed son has been admitted ... has been detained in Egypt since September 29 2019 and in December 2021 was sentenced to five years in prison ...

Laila Soueif, 68, who has lost nearly 30 kilograms in weight since starting her fast in September, was admitted to St. Thomas ...

Abd el Fattah's former prison mate, Australian journalist Peter Greste, joined Soueif in the hunger strike for three weeks last month. Speaking to Reuters outside the hospital, Abd el-Fattah's ...