Tag: Hunger strike

  • Concern mounts for three remaining hunger strikers

    30 July 2012 | Addameer, Al Haq, PHR-Israel Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-IL) are gravely concerned for the life and health of the three remaining Palestinian hunger strikers held by Israel. Of utmost concern is the health and life of administrative detainees Samer Al-Barq, today on…

  • 20 Palestinian detained children started a hunger strike in Hasharon prison

    13 June 2012 | Palestinian Information Center, Gaza Twenty Palestinian children, detained in Hasharon prison, launched on Tuesday June 12, an open hunger strike protesting the harsh prison conditions and the prison administration’s neglect of their demands. A 17-years-old child Ahmed Lafi, who was one of the strikers, told the Ministry of the prisoners in…

  • The war on Palestinian soccer: Free Mahmoud Sarsak

    By Ramzy Baroud 4 June 2012 | Press TV: Viewpoints On June 3, Palestinian national soccer team member Mahmoud Sarsak completed 80 days of a grueling hunger-strike. He had sustained the strike despite the fact that nearly 2,000 Palestinian inmates had called off their own 28-day hunger strike weeks ago. Although the story of Palestinian…