Palestinian Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike
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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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More Guantanamo Bay detainees protesting their indefinite confinement joined a hunger strike, raising the number of those refusing food to 89 from 75, the U.S. military said Thursday. Six of the hunger strikers at the isolated U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba were being force-fed, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand.
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Journalists at Ukraine&#39;s sole television channel giving the opposition air time have staged a hunger strike to denounce official pressure in the ex-Soviet state&#39;s hotly contested presidential election race.
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Thirty-three detained Iranian women activists go on hunger strike in prison, their relatives say.
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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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More Guantanamo Bay detainees have joined a hunger strike, raising the total to 89, and six of them were being force-fed, the U.S. military said Thursday.
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Hundreds more Palestinian prisoners join a hunger strike, as Yasser Arafat calls a one-day solidarity fast.
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The ousted president of French Polynesia Oscar Temaru started a hunger strike Monday in protest at his controversial ejection from office last weekend.
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Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails continued their open-ended hunger strike Wednesday for 11 consecutive days to protest against the difficult living conditions inside the Israeli jails.
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GAZA CITY , September 3 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails have decided to call off an 18-day hunger strike after most of their demands for better conditions were met, according to a Palestinian cabinet minister.
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KITSIYOT, Israel  - Israel began releasing dozens of Palestinian prisoners on Friday as part of a U.S.- backed deal to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas following the takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas Islamists.
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Palestinians held in Israeli jails go on hunger strike to protest at conditions but Israel says they can "starve to death".
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Israel begins releasing Palestinian inmates to relieve overcrowding in its detention centres.
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Israel started releasing more than 250 Palestinian prisoners Friday in an attempt to bolster moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his power struggle with Hamas.
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The number of hunger-striking Palestinians in Israeli jails has almost doubled to 2,900 in the week since the protest was launched, the Prisons Service said on Sunday.
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JERUSALEM -- The United Nations urged Israel yesterday to find a solution to a 13-day-old hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners, reminding Israel of its obligations under international law and human rights conventions.
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Israel initiated the release of 159 Palestinian convicts today as a gesture toward the new Palestinian administration that has formed sinced the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.