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Bengaluru Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike After Crackdown On Phones, Cigarettes
A major crackdown on illegal activities inside Bengaluru's Parappana Agrahara Central Jail triggered a three-day hunger strike by inmates, days after a series of videos showing prisoners using mobile phones, consuming alcohol, and partying went viral
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Serial Killer 'Hannibal' On Hunger Strike After Losing TV And PlayStation In Prison
Robert Maudsley, better known as "Hannibal the Cannibal", has spent over five decades behind the bars.
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Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Price Winner Narges Mohammadi Ends Hunger Strike
The family of imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi says she has ended a hunger strike after she received medical treatment without wearing the obligatory head covering.
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Photos Of Iranian Prisoner On Hunger Strike Cause Outrage
Social media images purported to be of an emaciated jailed Iranian physician who went on hunger strike in support of demonstrations against the compulsory wearing of the hijab have caused outrage and warnings that he risks death.
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Prisoners On Indefinite Hunger Strike In Assam's Karimganj Jail Hospitalised
Nine undertrial prisoners in Assam's Karimganj district, who have staged indefinite hunger strike were admitted to a local hospital after their health deteriorated.
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Terrorist Yasin Malik Ends Hunger Strike Inside Tihar Jail: Cops
Terrorist Yasin Malik who was on hunger strike in Tihar Jail for the last 10 days discontinued his faston Monday evening after he was informed that his demands have been conveyed to the authorities concerned, prison officials said.
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Terrorist Yasin Malik On Hunger Strike Inside Tihar Jail: Report
Chief of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Yasin Malik, who is serving life term for cases including funding terrorism, has begun a hunger strike inside Tihar's jail, prison officials said on Saturday.
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Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar Stopped Eating, Sought Meets With Wife: Cops
'Conman' Sukesh Chandrashekhar was on a hunger strike for 17 days in Delhi prisons demanding additional meetings with his wife, lodged in jail number 6, officials said on Tuesday.
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Palestinian Prisoner Detained Without Charge In Israel Ends 141-Day Hunger Strike
A Palestinian prisoner on Tuesday ended a hunger strike that lasted nearly five months after Israel agreed not to extend his detention, his family and Palestinian officials said, although Israeli officials did not confirm a deal had been made.
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Russian Prison Threatens To Force-Feed Jailed Critic On Hunger Strike
Russian prison officials are threatening to start force-feeding jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, his team said Monday, after he lost eight kilograms (18 pounds) since starting a hunger strike.
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Pak Doctor, Who Helped CIA Track bin Laden, On Hunger Strike In Jail
The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track and kill Osama bin Laden has launched a hunger strike from his prison cell, his lawyer and family said Monday.
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UN Human Rights Body Slams Force-Feeding Of Detainees, Including Indians
Amid concerns over the force-feeding of immigrant detainees, including Indians, at a "processing centre" in the US, the UN human rights office said forcible feeding of prisoners on hunger strike is "inhuman" and "unacceptable" and may amount to torture in violation of a UN convention.
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Jailed Ukranian Filmmaker Ready To Starve Till Death In Russia During World Cup
When the World Cup kicks off in Russia on Thursday Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Russia, will have spent a month without food.
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Rajiv Gandhi Assassin Nalini Sriharan On Hunger Strike Demanding Shift To Chennai Jail
Nalini Sriharan, one of the convicts in the assassination case of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has started a hunger strike in Vellore prison demanding that she be shifted to a jail here.
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LeT Terrorist On Death Row Goes On Fast Demanding TV, 'Good Food'
A Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Muzaffar Ahmed Rather, who is on death row, has been on a hunger strike for the last two days demanding a TV set and 'good food' in his solitary cell.
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Bengaluru Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike After Crackdown On Phones, Cigarettes
A major crackdown on illegal activities inside Bengaluru's Parappana Agrahara Central Jail triggered a three-day hunger strike by inmates, days after a series of videos showing prisoners using mobile phones, consuming alcohol, and partying went viral
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Serial Killer 'Hannibal' On Hunger Strike After Losing TV And PlayStation In Prison
Robert Maudsley, better known as "Hannibal the Cannibal", has spent over five decades behind the bars.
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Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Price Winner Narges Mohammadi Ends Hunger Strike
The family of imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi says she has ended a hunger strike after she received medical treatment without wearing the obligatory head covering.
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Photos Of Iranian Prisoner On Hunger Strike Cause Outrage
Social media images purported to be of an emaciated jailed Iranian physician who went on hunger strike in support of demonstrations against the compulsory wearing of the hijab have caused outrage and warnings that he risks death.
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Prisoners On Indefinite Hunger Strike In Assam's Karimganj Jail Hospitalised
Nine undertrial prisoners in Assam's Karimganj district, who have staged indefinite hunger strike were admitted to a local hospital after their health deteriorated.
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Terrorist Yasin Malik Ends Hunger Strike Inside Tihar Jail: Cops
Terrorist Yasin Malik who was on hunger strike in Tihar Jail for the last 10 days discontinued his faston Monday evening after he was informed that his demands have been conveyed to the authorities concerned, prison officials said.
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Terrorist Yasin Malik On Hunger Strike Inside Tihar Jail: Report
Chief of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Yasin Malik, who is serving life term for cases including funding terrorism, has begun a hunger strike inside Tihar's jail, prison officials said on Saturday.
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Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar Stopped Eating, Sought Meets With Wife: Cops
'Conman' Sukesh Chandrashekhar was on a hunger strike for 17 days in Delhi prisons demanding additional meetings with his wife, lodged in jail number 6, officials said on Tuesday.
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Palestinian Prisoner Detained Without Charge In Israel Ends 141-Day Hunger Strike
A Palestinian prisoner on Tuesday ended a hunger strike that lasted nearly five months after Israel agreed not to extend his detention, his family and Palestinian officials said, although Israeli officials did not confirm a deal had been made.
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Russian Prison Threatens To Force-Feed Jailed Critic On Hunger Strike
Russian prison officials are threatening to start force-feeding jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, his team said Monday, after he lost eight kilograms (18 pounds) since starting a hunger strike.
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Pak Doctor, Who Helped CIA Track bin Laden, On Hunger Strike In Jail
The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track and kill Osama bin Laden has launched a hunger strike from his prison cell, his lawyer and family said Monday.
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UN Human Rights Body Slams Force-Feeding Of Detainees, Including Indians
Amid concerns over the force-feeding of immigrant detainees, including Indians, at a "processing centre" in the US, the UN human rights office said forcible feeding of prisoners on hunger strike is "inhuman" and "unacceptable" and may amount to torture in violation of a UN convention.
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Jailed Ukranian Filmmaker Ready To Starve Till Death In Russia During World Cup
When the World Cup kicks off in Russia on Thursday Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Russia, will have spent a month without food.
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Rajiv Gandhi Assassin Nalini Sriharan On Hunger Strike Demanding Shift To Chennai Jail
Nalini Sriharan, one of the convicts in the assassination case of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has started a hunger strike in Vellore prison demanding that she be shifted to a jail here.
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LeT Terrorist On Death Row Goes On Fast Demanding TV, 'Good Food'
A Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Muzaffar Ahmed Rather, who is on death row, has been on a hunger strike for the last two days demanding a TV set and 'good food' in his solitary cell.
