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Angry Karachi traders to hold hunger strike tomorrow against lockdown restrictions

KARACHI: Karachi Traders Action Committee will hold a hunger strike tomorrow (Thursday) to protest against the fresh COVID-19 restrictions on businesses imposed by the...

Lockdown restrictions: Karachi traders announce hunger strike on Sept 2

KARACHI: Karachi Traders Action Committee has announced a hunger strike on September 2 to protest against the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions on businesses by the...

Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny launches hunger strike in bid for medical care

“I really need a doctor. Every convict has the right (by law) to invite a specialist to examine and consult him. Even I have such a right and I’m innocent,” Navalny wrote in the letter.

MPA goes on hunger strike till resolution, accountability over wheat crisis

Member provincial assembly in Punjab, Hassan Murtaza announced a hunger strike against the recent wheat flour crisis

Central jail prisoners begin hunger strike in occupied Kashmir

The prisoners at central jail of Srinagar, in occupied Kashmir, started a hunger strike on Tuesday to press for their demands

Turkey jails 14 lawyers representing imprisoned hunger strikers

ISTANBUL: A Turkish court on Thursday jailed on terror charges 14 lawyers representing two detained teachers who have been on hunger strike for six...

Iran reform leader Mehdi Karroubi ends hunger strike

TEHRAN: Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest for six years, ended his hunger strike late Thursday after the government agreed to remove...

‘On a hunger strike, you eat yourself’

Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails entered the second month of a hunger strike on Wednesday. Led by Palestinian leader and prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti,...

Palestinian prisoners hunger strike heightens tension with Israel

JERUSALEM/GAZA: A hunger strike by more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners over their treatment in Israeli jails has turned into a heated dispute over whether the...

Palestinian leader on hunger strike sees health decline: NGO

RAMALLAH: Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti's health has declined seriously over the past week after he joined a hunger strike with more than 1,000 other...

Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails launch mass hunger strike

RAMALLAH: Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails launched a hunger strike on Monday following a call from leader and prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, a...

Man demanding Gen. Raheel Sharif’s extension dies

KARACHI: A man who was observing a hunger strike till death seeking an extension in the tenure of now former Army Chief General Raheel...

Ex-Guantanamo inmate ends hunger strike after relocation demand accepted

MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY: A former Guantanamo inmate resettled in Uruguay who went on hunger strike to demand relocation to another country has dropped his protest after receiving...

Being threatened from MQM workers, says Irum Farooque

KARACHI: Former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Irum Azeem Farooque has claimed that she was being given death threat from the party workers.

Hunger Strike: MQM meets CM Sindh, federal information minister

KARACHI: In a bid to break the ice after Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s hunger strike ‘unto death’ against an alleged political victimisation of party workers enters its sixth day on Monday, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and Federal Information Minister Pervez Rasheed held separate meetings in the city with the protesting MQM leaders.

MQM’s hunger strike enters fifth day

KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) hunger strike camp continues on the fifth consecutive day today with more supporters and party workers joining the camp in pursuance of their demands, ARY News reported.

Muttahida hunger strike in Karachi enters third day

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement activists are observing a hunger strike for the last three days outside the city’s press club against, what was initially thought, the arrest of six party workers from the city recently.

‘Victimization’: MQM’s hunger strike unto death continues

KARACHI: Mutahidda Quami Movement is continuing its hunger strike unto death against alleged victimization of party workers in different cities, ARY News reported.

Five things to know about India’s ‘Iron Lady’

NEW DELHI:  Indian human rights activist Irom Sharmila ended a 16-year hunger strike -- thought to be the world's longest -- on Tuesday to stand for election. Here are five things to know about the woman known as the "Iron Lady of Manipur".

India’s ‘Iron Lady’ ends 16-year hunger strike to enter politics

GUWAHATI, INDIA: An Indian rights activist who has waged what is thought to be the world's longest hunger strike ended her 16-year fast on Tuesday, two weeks after declaring she was entering politics.

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