But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, ...

A mother's desperate hunger strike outside 10 Downing Street aims to secure her son's release from an Egyptian prison.

Zhang Zhan travelled to the city of Wuhan to cover the very beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic. Reporters Without Borders ...

"I will not bow to this regime. I will not play by its rules," vowed journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, who has been on hunger strike in a Georgian jail for 25 days. The founder of two news websites in ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

Laila Soueif has been on hunger strike for 117 days ... the 8th January after she visited him in the maximum security Tora prison in Cairo. She said: "We had a visit. Our visits are 20 minutes ...

A 2019 Comoros presidential runner is on the fifth day of a hunger strike to push for his trial or release after over a year in detention on conspiracy charges, his lawyer said Friday. Supporters ...

Dec. 12 was the 29th day of the hunger strike for ICE detainees at Bergen County Jail. Ever since the strike started, protestors have stood outside everyday in solidarity with them. Demonstrations ...

"I've joined a hunger strike with Alaa's mother, Laila Soueif, because I believe that I need to do what I can to help Alaa get out of prison," he said. "I quite literally owe him my life.

is on her 117th day of a hunger strike in London, pressuring the British government, as they’re both British Egyptian citizens, to get Alaa out of prison. Tell us who he was and how you knew him ...