Palestinians in Israeli Jails Start Hunger Strike
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Thousands of Palestinian  prisoners in Israeli jails began a hunger strike for better  conditions Sunday, but Israel's security minister said he  didn't care if they starved to death.
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It was announced yesterday that the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his aides started a hunger strike in protest of their detention conditions.
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Israel declared its hospitals  off-limits on Tuesday to the 2,800 Palestinians on hunger  strike in Israeli prisons, saying they could be treated in  makeshift facilities behind bars if taken ill. "I am not  prepared for there to be a situation where the lives of  patients and medical teams are endangered in our hospitals as a  result of us having to admit these murderers," Health Minister  Danny Naveh told Army Radio.
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JERUSALEM - More than a thousand Palestinian prisoners went on a hunger strike to press for better conditions, but Israel responded by tightening inmate restrictions, and a Cabinet minister said he wouldn't care if they starved to death.    About 1,600 prisoners struck on Sunday...
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A group of students in the northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy has gone on a hunger strike demanding a release of their comrades, whom a local court sentenced to ten days under administrative arrest.
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People in many West Bank cities and towns have staged a general sit-in to express solidarity with fellow Palestinians held in Israeli jails, Aljazeera&#39;s correspondent reports.
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The prisoners&#39; hunger strike in Palestine is nearing the end of its second week. Three days ago, in Askar and then Balata refugee camps near Nablus, Israeli troops ran amok in the camps, making mass arrests
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Around 800 Palestinian  prisoners who suspended a hunger strike after winning some  concessions from their Israeli jail resumed fasting Monday  saying nothing had changed, their spokesman said.
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Through hunger strikes and protests, militant inmates in Morocco have won perks â including use of the conjugal rooms â that make them the envy of the other inmates.
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President Yaser Arafat said that what is happening to some four thousand Palestinian detainees on hunger strike in Israeli jails is a real crime in violation of all international legal and human laws, as Israel on Tuesday declared its hospitals off-limits
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More than 6,000 inmates at 24 prisons around Romania took part in hunger strikes and other protests Sunday to demand amnesty and better living conditions.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- About 800 Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike after winning concessions from Israeli authorities, a spokesman for the men said yesterday.
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Israel declared psychological war on hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners on Monday, saying it would barbecue meat outside their cells to try to break their will.
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Prison workers soon might force feed a former university professor who has been on a hunger strike for six weeks to protest his imprisonment for refusing to testify about Palestinian charities, his lawyer said Wednesday.
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Israel declared psychological war on  hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners Monday, saying it would  barbecue meat outside their cells to try to break their will.
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United Nations Mideast peace envoy Terje Roed-Larsen Friday urged Israeli prison authorities to ensure the well-being of Palestinian hunger strikers.
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Israel declared psychological war on  hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners on Monday, saying it  would barbecue meat outside their cells to try to break their  spirit.