Palestinian and Israeli authorities on Tuesday reported the death of a prominent leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ), Khader Adnan, who embarked on a hunger strike for 86 days. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club Association, a non-governmental organisation, said…
Iranian film director Jafar Panahi goes on hunger strike
Iran’s courts voided the dissident director’s sentence last week, but Jafar Panahi is being kept incarcerated in the notoriously harsh Evin prison. “I firmly declare that in protest against the illegal and inhumane behavior of the judicial and security apparatus…
