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Many people accept the Egyptian government’s restrictions on freedoms, for a variety of conflicting reasons.
Direct action can make the demands of a mainstream movement seem reasonable.
The power of the hunger strike lies in its utter simplicity. Anyone can choose to forego eating, even when living under extremely restricted conditions.
The husband of detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is in the 18th day of his hunger strike outside the Foreign Office in London.
Ernest Knocks Off was 18 when he arrived at the Carlisle boarding school in 1879. He was one of many young Native people who fought – in his case, to the death – to retain their language and culture.
The Russian opposition leader remains in prison, but has now ended his hunger strike.
The average person is likely to be able to survive on a hunger strike for two months, provided they are drinking water. Here’s how the human body can manage for so long without food.
As Americans celebrate the legacy of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, it is also a moment to acknowledge how suffragists first used hunger strike as a form of protest.
Hungry for dignity, migrants are resisting their cruel detention using the only tool left available to them.
Oleg Sentsov’s trial was a farce, but the world continues to ignore his plight.
“The Magnificent Seven” was a slice of daily life, a class struggle song framed by the sound of funk and the emergent hip-hop in New York.
As 1,300 prisoners went on strike for improved conditions, a wave of solidarity protests spread across the Palestinian Territories.
By legalising the controversial measure, even practices at Guantanamo might soon be able to come in from the cold.
Reports continue to emanate of escalating hunger strikes among asylum seekers at the Manus Island detention centre in protest at the length of their detention and their conditions. The Australian government…
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