Mustafa Kassem, American citizen who had been held in Egyptian prison for past five years, died on Monday after series of hunger strikes Two US Senators called on President Donald Trump to “immediately” sanction Egypt [ More … ]
Moustafa Kassem, detained in Cairo in 2013 and suffering from serious medical problems, had protested his innocence. An American imprisoned in Egypt for six years on what he insisted were false charges, and whose case [ More … ]
Aisha Khairat Al-Shater has been transferred to Al-Qanater Prison hospital after her health deteriorated in the one-meter square cell in which she is being held in solitary confinement. The daughter of the deputy leader of [ More … ]
Amnesty International has censured the “harsh and inhumane conditions” of political prisoners in Egypt, calling on the African country’s authorities to immediately end the rights abuses of the detainees there. The international rights group urged [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities must immediately end cruel and inhumane detention conditions and allow regular family visits at al-Aqrab maximum security prison in Tora where approximately 130 detainees have gone on a mass hunger strike for [ More … ]
A rights group has stated that Some 80 % of detainees held in Egypt’s Al-Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison began a hunger strike in September to protest human rights violations against them. In a statement on its [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused fellow Fatah members of using a recent prisoner hunger strike to ‘conspire against him’ over the recent hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Fatah [ More … ]
Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons suspended a 40-day mass hunger strike during dawn hours on Saturday, after reaching an agreement with the Israel Prison Service (IPS) that reinstated the prisoners’ family visitation sessions [ More … ]
Hundreds of the prisoners have been refusing food since April 17 over conditions for about 6,500 Palestinian inmates. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asked the United States to help end a weeks-long hunger strike by [ More … ]
Head of Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe released a statement Wednesday evening, saying that all hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners have been transferred to three Israeli prisons “due to their proximity to Israeli hospitals.” Qaraqe [ More … ]
A delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Thursday visited Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, who has been leading an estimated 1,600 on a mass hunger strike since April 17, in his [ More … ]
Fadwa Barghouti, wife of Palestinian leader and prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, has called on the pope to “speak up, because freedom and dignity are God given rights. The wife of the leader of a hunger [ More … ]
As some 1,600 Palestinian prisoners marked their 23rd day on hunger strike on Tuesday, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs warned that hunger strikers had entered a dangerous stage, reporting that health conditions were deteriorating [ More … ]
A mass hunger strike underway in Israeli prisons rounded off its third week on Sunday, as Israeli authorities have maintained a severe crackdown on prisoners who are refusing meals, while the medical conditions of numerous [ More … ]
The Arab League called Thursday on the UN to open an international inquiry into “violations” against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails as some inmates enter their third week of hunger strikes. The pan-Arab body “invites [ More … ]
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