Death Row Inmates Hold Hunger Strike
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Five death-row inmates waged a hunger strike Thursday, asking to be allowed to interact with one another and calling their years of solitary confinement "inhumane and tantamount to psychological torture."
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Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and 11 top leaders of his regime have gone on hunger strike in their US detention centre, one of their lawyers said yesterday.
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Afghan asylum seekers in a Dublin cathedral enter the seventh day of a hunger strike.
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ighteen days after they began a hunger strike demanding improved humanitarian conditions, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails resumed eating last night.
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Imprisoned Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky launched a hunger strike Wednesday to protest authorities' refusal to give his jailed ex-lawyer AIDS medication.
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The Supreme Court returned to work Monday to hear pleas from death-row inmates to force states to use different drugs or tighten their procedures to reduce the risk that prisoners will suffer excruciating pain during their executions.
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Doctors at India's top medical institute begin a hunger strike to protest against quotas for low-caste Hindus.
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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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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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A US death row inmate in Florida, whose January execution was delayed at the last minute to allow him to contest the state's lethal execution method as inhumane, faces execution Wednesday after losing a series of court appeals.
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JERUSALEM -- An estimated 1,500 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons launched a hunger strike yesterday, demanding more visits with family members, an end to strip searches, and better overall conditions.
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Some Palestinian prisoners suspend a hunger strike now in its thirteenth day at other jails in Israel, reports say.
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Thousands of prison officers across England and Wales started a 24-strike over pay Wednesday, forcing many jails to lock offenders in their cells.
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In the past 45 years, Tennessee has executed one death row inmate. On Tuesday, the state was preparing to administer lethal injection to two condemned murderers on the same day.
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This file photo provided by the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice showing Texas death row inmate Frances Newton who is set for execution by lethal injection in Huntsville on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.
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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.Comment
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A year after he was captured by U.S.  troops, some of Saddam Hussein's old lieutenants stirred up new  interest in his fate on Sunday by going on hunger strike over  access to lawyers and fears of being handed over to Iraqis.