Laila Soueif, who has been on hunger strike for 117 days over the failure to secure Alaa Abd El-Fattah's release from an ...

British Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah remains imprisoned in Cairo despite completing his sentence in September.

A mother from Streatham has been on hunger strike for more than a hundred days to press for her son's release from an ...

Dozens of men from the ethnic minority sought escape from repression in China a decade ago, but have been detained in ...

Abd el-Fattah, a software developer and blogger who rose to prominence as an activist in the 2011 Arab Spring, was jailed for ...

A group of 48 ethnic minority Muslims who fled Chinese persecution have been held in Thailand for almost 11 years ...

Prominent activist Sihem Bensedrine has intensified her effort to gain release after six months in detention. Observers say the human rights situation in Tunisia has dramatically deteriorated under ...

On January 14, prominent activist and former president of Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission, Sihem Bensedrine, began a ...

The Uganda Prisons Service has strongly denied allegations that Col (Rtd.) Dr Kizza Besigye, the detained opposition leader, ...

Jagjit Singh Dallewal's hunger strike unto death at the fortified protest site involves strict security measures. Every ...

The ongoing hunger strike and the Governor's intervention have sparked concerns about a repeat of Kerala's confrontations.