Palestinian inmates on hunger strike
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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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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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Tanzanian death row prisoners enter the fifth day of a hunger strike complaining of abuses.
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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 on Monday began releasing 159 Palestinian prisoners as part of a prisoner swap with Egypt and in what is also seen as a gesture to the new Palestinian leadership.
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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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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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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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Israel launches psychological war against hundreds of Palestinian inmates on hunger strike for better conditions.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Some 12,500 Argentine prisoners are staging a hunger strike to demand quicker action in their court cases, government officials said on Tuesday.
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Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are said to have resumed a hunger strike protest after a weekend break. An Israeli prison service official confirmed that between 350 and 400 prisoners were again refusing meals at Shikma prison in the town of Ashkelon.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, June 25 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised Monday to seek the release of 250 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons in response to calls from Arab leaders that he take steps to shore up the emergency government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
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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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A Palestinian prisoner who was wounded in rioting at an Israeli desert prison died early Tuesday, prompting Palestinian threats of revenge and accusations that the man was abused by Israeli authorities.
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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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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 hunger strike that, at its height, involved some 4,000 Palestinians interned in Israeli jails ends after nearly three weeks.