Israeli force-feeding law pits doctors against state
By MIRIAM BERGER Hospital-bound and shackled, Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan was 60 days into his hunger strike, launched in protest of his detention without charge in an Israeli jail, when…
Hunger strikes
Israel cracks down on Jewish extremists with new arrests
By DANIEL ESTRIN Israel intensified its crackdown on Jewish extremists Sunday, jailing two high-profile ultranationalist Israelis for six months without charge and arresting additional suspects in West Bank settlement outposts,…
US sends 6 prisoners from Guantanamo to Uruguay
By BEN FOX Six prisoners held for 12 years at Guantanamo Bay have been sent to Uruguay to be resettled as refugees, the U.S. government announced Sunday — a deal…
AS DUBAI REBOUNDS, HUNGER STRIKE RECALLS THE CRASH
By AYA BATRAWY and BRIAN MURPHY A panoramic advertising billboard is set up by an unfinished building, center, which has been left the same since the 2009 financial crisis in…
100 PRISONERS NOW ON HUNGER STRIKE AT GUANTANAMO
FILE – In this Dec. 4, 2006 file photo reviewed by a U.S. Dept of Defense official, a detainee shields his face as he peers out through the so-called “bean…
YEMENIS DEMAND RELEASE OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
By AHMED AL-HAJ Yemeni women hold photos of their relatives detained in Guantanamo Bay prison during a demonstration in front of the U.S. embassy demanding their release, in Sanaa, Yemen,…