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Latest in Tag: hunger strike

My release is a ‘conspiracy’: Alaa Abdel Fattah
Activist and family continue hunger strike

Journalists join forces with hunger strikers
Hunger strikers call for release of prisoners under Protest Law
5 Al-Tayar Al-Sha’aby members start hunger strike
Activists demand modification of Protest Law and release of all political prisoners
Hunger striking activists to continue NCHR sit-in
Activists demand cancellation of Protest Law and the release of all political prisoners
Detained Al-Azhar students begin hunger strikes
A group of detained Al-Azhar students join dozens of detainees in open-ended hunger strikes until release

Hunger striking detainees receive Ministry of Interior threats: Freedom of the Brave
Ministry of Interior denies detainees in Ains Shams police station entered hunger strike

Number of hunger-strikers grow
Tanta prisoner Diaa al-Mahdi joins activists in refraining from food

Mahienour El-Massry starts hunger strike
Political movements to announce support for hunger strikes, lawyer says

El-Serify put under “probationary measures” over hunger strike
Hunger striking Karima El-Serify to be put under “probationary methods”, which family and friends say is a way to pressure her to end hunger strike

Alaa Abdel Fattah launches hunger strike
Prominent activist vows he will “no longer play the role they’ve written for me”

Hunger strikes see rising use as protest in Egypt’s jails
Soltan has abstained from food for over 150 days.

Court orders hunger-striking detainee back to hospital
Soltan on hunger strike for over140 days to receive medical care

Board members of Doctors’ Syndicate attempt to visit Soltan
Police officers refused the members access to hunger striking detainee, despite deteriorating health

Detention renewed for hunger-striking journalist
Elshamy, hundreds of others handed 45 more days in prison without charges

Seven local NGOs release letter demanding medical treatment for hunger striking detainee
Groups say Egyptian government’s refusal to send Mohamed Soltan to hospital is contrary to UN laws

Detainee on hunger strike transferred to intensive care: sister
EOHR expresses concerns over deteriorating health of detainees on hunger strike

Israel backs law to block Palestinian prisoner releases
The amendment would give the courts power to prevent Israel’s president from granting clemency or shortening the jail term of anyone imprisoned for murder.

Journalist’s hunger strike ongoing
New letter from prison contradicts NCHR report

Al Jazeera journalist detention hearing postponed
Abdullah Elshamy, detained since the dispersal of sit-ins at Rabaa Al Adaweya, has been on hunger strike for over 130 days

Wife of detained Al Jazeera journalist accuses NCHR of not doing their job
“We are willing to resign if this would help the case,” NCHR member says

Activists call for journalists’ release
Human rights activists also called for release of all political detainees regardless of political affiliation

Misr Al-Qawia back activists’ hunger strikes
Protests against detainment of Elshamy and Soltan to be held over two days
Hisham Mubarak Law Centre registers hunger strikes
Two activists start hunger strike in support of detained journalists

Release Elshamy immediately: Amnesty International
Human rights watchdog demands hunger-striking journalist’s release after being moved to solitary confinement

Amnesty International warns of enforced disappearance of hunger striking journalist
Statement highlights risk of torture, encourages public to write Egyptian authorities

Al Jazeera’s Elshamy could ‘die within a few days’: Doctor
Journalist in critical condition as hunger strike reaches 111 days
Imprisoned Al-Jazeera journalist begins hunger strike in Tora Prison
“Nothing will break my dignity,” Abdullah Elshamy says of his imprisonment

Activists begin prison hunger strike
Maher, Adel and Douma begin a hunger strike to protest their mistreatment in Tora Prison

Dozens of detained refugees begin hunger strike
Over 50 Syrian and Palestinian refugees are protesting unlawful detention in poor conditions

Hamas contacts Egyptian intelligence
Hamas calls on the Egyptian intelligence to take steps to help Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike