89 Guantanamo detainees on hunger strike
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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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HARTFORD, Conn.  - Five prisoners sentenced to be  executed in Connecticut began a hunger strike on Thursday to  protest their solitary living conditions which they called  "inhumane and tantamount to psychological torture."
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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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The United Nations on Friday voiced concern at a reported hunger strike by over 2,900 Palestinian prisoners which was launched two weeks ago to demand an end to inhuman 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.
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Insurgents threatening to kill three kidnapped UN workers said Sunday they have handed over a list of 26 prisoners, some possibly held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who they would take in exchange for the hostages.
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Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay entered Ramadan with traditional sweets, dates and honey &#151; but without a military chaplain to lead them in prayer during Islam's holy month.
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Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants went on a hunger strike Wednesday to protest the shooting death of an attorney on the ousted Iraqi leader&#039;s defense team, their chief lawyer said &amp;#151; the third such killing in the 8-month-old trial.
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Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants went on a hunger strike Wednesday to protest the killing of an attorney on the defense team, Saddam&#039;s chief lawyer said. Khalil al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press, &quot;President Saddam and other members of his leadership went on a hunger strike today to protest the killing of Khamis al-Obeidi.&quot;
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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 Saturday.
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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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Some of Iraq&#39;s high-profile detainees have gone on hunger strike in protest of their detention, a lawyer said Sunday. A US military official
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Detainees at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were shackled to the floor in fetal positions for more than 24 hours at a time, left without food and water, and
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A look at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay:
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Twenty-three prisoners at the Guantanamo  detention camp staged a mass protest in 2003 in which some  tried to strangle themselves, but the U.S. military said on  Tuesday it did not publicize it at the time because it did not  consider most of them genuine suicide attempts.
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SAN JUAN -- A high-calorie diet combined with life in the cell block -- almost around the clock in some cases -- is making detainees at Guantanamo Bay fat.
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Eight of Saddam Hussein's 11 top lieutenants went on hunger strikes over the weekend to demand visits in jail from the International Committee of the Red Cross, but they were eating again by Monday, a U.S. military spokesman said. The former dictator had never joined the protest, the spokesman said.