Cuban dissident Wilmar Villar dies after 50-day hunger strike protesting against his sentence for taking part in a demonstration.

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Files just released by the National Archives show Margaret Thatcher took part in negotiations with the IRA during the 1981 Hunger Strikes, BBC investigative journalist Peter Taylor says.

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NEW DELHI — Hundreds of anti-corruption campaigners descended on New Delhi and several other Indian cities on Sunday for the third time this year to protest a new draft legislation that they say is powerless to fight corruption. Anna Hazare, the veteran activist who held two public fasts earlier this year, began a symbolic one-day hunger strike early Sunday. He called the new proposal “a betrayal,” and said he would begin a bigger, marathon hunger strike on Dec. 27. Read full article > >

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GAZA CITY — A week ago, Yahya Dabassa Ibrahim was on a hunger strike, rotting away in an Israeli prison where he expected to spend the rest of his life. But the Oct. 18 prisoner swap between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas landed the Bethlehem native in a surreal place: the Gaza Strip’s brand-new luxury hotel . Read full article > >

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After an 11-day hunger strike, Afghan MP joins.

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Corrections officials said that they would discipline inmates who participated in a renewed hunger strike to protest conditions in California’s highest-security prisons.

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Bahrain has released on bail 20 medics who are on trial for their role in recent pro-democracy protests, including many who had gone on a hunger strike.

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Indian campaigner Anna Hazare ends his 12-day hunger strike after parliament expressed support for some of his demands to fight corruption.

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Last month, I accidentally found an old Iranian friend on Facebook, but never thought I would see her again after she cut all her online relations following a long divorce battle. The last time I saw her at her wedding, she looked so happy and in love. Even though none of the families were content about the marriage, she had won her case to marry him after months of hunger strikes and threats of suicide. Less than a year later after the marriage, she came back to her father’s house as a beaten and abused divorcee. She didn’t show her face again for almost three years.

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NEW DELHI — An Indian reform activist agreed Saturday to end an 11-day hunger strike after Parliament expressed nonbinding support for parts of his anti-graft plan, ending a drama that had deeply embarrassed a government plagued by corruption scandals. The 74-year-old Anna Hazare had demanded sweeping legislation to create a government watchdog, but said Parliament’s move was enough to persuade him to begin eating. “It’s only a half victory. Total victory is yet to come,” he told thousands of cheering supporters at a protest ground in New Delhi. Hazare, who has lost more than 16 pounds (7.5 kilograms), said he planned to break his fast Sunday morning. Read full article > >

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NEW DELHI — A day after India’s prime minister urged an ailing 74-year old anti-corruption activist to end his protest fast, officials and activists went into a huddle Wednesday to thrash out a compromise that could end the standoff and produce a strong anti-graft law.                                                                                                      On the ninth day of his hunger strike, activist Anna Hazare said he has lost about 12 pounds but continues to question the government’s will to introduce sweeping and powerful ombudsman legislation to curb corruption. He had earlier set Aug. 30 as a deadline for introducing a tough anti-corruption law in Parliament.   Read full article > >

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Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare is due to leave prison to begin a 15-day hunger strike to force Delhi to strengthen an anti-corruption bill.

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The protest leader Anna Hazare announced that he would leave a city jail on Friday and begin a mass demonstration and hunger strike in New Delhi.

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NEW DELHI — India’s leading anti-corruption campaigner prepared to leave prison on Thursday after winning an assurance from the government that he could continue his widely watched hunger strike and burgeoning protest against official graft at a park in central Delhi for at least 15 days. The 74-year-old Anna Hazare had been arrested on Tuesday hours before he planned to begin a “fast until death” demanding tougher laws against corruption, prompting protests across India by tens of thousands of people and putting the government squarely on the backfoot. Read full article > >

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Indian activist wins right to fast in public, prepares to leave jail