Press TV - A prisoners rights group says all hunger-striking Palestinian inmates in Israeli jails have been transferred to three detention facilities with field hospitals as the protesters health conditions are deteriorating. In a Wednesday statement, Head of Palestinian Committee of Prisoners Affairs Issa Qaraqe said an estimated 1,300 hunger ...

Alwaght- Over 1,500 Palestinian prisoners languishing in notorious Israeli regime jails, in a battle of wills, launched a hunger strike on 17 April to protest against Israeli violations including torture, medical negligence and administrative detention. The hunger strike which commenced on the Palestinian Prisoners Day was launched to achieve ...

Press TV- Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons have gone on hunger strike in one of the biggest actions of its kindand are expected to be joined by hundreds of more inmates. At least 1,500 prisoners started a mass hunger strike on Monday, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Club. The number was expected to soon rise to 2,000. The ...

IFP- Hunger strike made him popular. Domestic and foreign media talked about Arash Sadeqi and the 19-year prison term he has been sentenced to by Irans Judiciary. His wife Golrokh Iraee was also the subject of popular demands in major campaigns launched for Sadeqi in Iranian social media. She has been sentenced to 6 years in prison, and this made ...

By Associated Press Political prisoners protest snap body searches, abuse by prison guards in main Tehran prison, opposition website says DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- At least nine Iranian women political prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to protest snap body searches and abuse by prison guards at the main prison in Tehran, according ...

British-Iranian woman, jailed for trying to attend men's volleyball match, is protesting against her detention. A British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran after trying to watch a volleyball match is on a hunger strike for the second time, reports say. Ghoncheh Ghavamiwas sentenced to a year in jail after attempting to attend a men's volleyball match ...

TEHRAN -- Jailed Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has halted her hunger strike after the Iranian judiciary agreed to drop a travel ban against her daughter, her husband said Tuesday. Sotoudeh had endured nearly seven weeks without food, drinking salt and sugar solutions, to protest her 12-year-old daughter Mehrave being banned from leaving ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, says she is extremely concerned about the health of the Iranian human rights activist, Nasrin Sotoudeh. Ms Sotoudeh is in the seventh week of a hunger strike in Tehran's Evin prison. Her family says she has lost a lot of weight and her blood pressure is now abnormally low. She is serving ...

(Reuters) - Iranian legislators are to visit Tehran's Evin prison and look into the case of an imprisoned lawyer on hunger strike there amid concerns over her deteriorating condition, Iranian media reported on Sunday. Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer and human rights activist, is serving a six-year jail sentence after being arrested in September 2010 on ...

(Reuters) - The United States on Friday demanded thatIranfree jailed human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, who it said has been on hunger strike for more than six weeks, and sharply criticized Iranian authorities for their treatment of the 49-year-old prize-winning lawyer. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said reports of Sotoudeh's rapidly ...