Laila Soueif has not eaten for 134 days as she campaigns for the release of her pro-democracy activist son from jail in Egypt ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

The four-time presidential contender had also refused to see his lawyers in protest against his continued detention ...

Laila Soueif, 68, has been sitting outside 10 Downing Street for 130 days on a hunger strike. She is a mother who is trying ...

The mother of one of Georgia's dozens of imprisoned protesters says the nation "chose Europe," but is being "taken to Russia" ...

The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has announced a nationwide hunger strike from February 12 to 14 against the PECA Act, vowing to fight for press freedom. Journalists, political leaders ...

After 19 long hours, the students of Jahangirnagar University (JU), who were on a hunger strike demanding the abolition of ...

"The health condition of my father has deteriorated as his hunger strike enters its 8th day. He has been shifted to RML ...

Family members of 32 men being held under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) launched a hunger strike ...

Feb. 3, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. How California's Pelican Bay prison ignited a statewide hunger strike as a feat of unity by 30,000 incarcerated people.

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, she was just a mother — a mom trying to win freedom for her son ...