In 2008, he stepped into feature filmmaking with Hunger, a raw and unflinching look at the 1981 Irish hunger strike. The film won the Camera d’Or at Cannes, establishing McQueen as a formidable ...

If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism ... was on the blanket protest for four-and-a-half years and went on the 1981 hunger strike for 70 days. Mr McKeown is now an author, ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told a mother who has been on hunger strike for 140 days that he will press the Egyptian government to release her son LONDON -- British Prime Minister Keir ...

While journalists observed symbolic hunger strike, people belonging to different walks of life visited the camps to express solidarity with the protesters. PFUJ President Afzal Butt while speaking ...

News of Dr Kizza Besigye’s hunger strike has been circulating since Tuesday when his wife, Winnie Byanyima, announced on X that her husband, currently in Luzira prison, had begun the protest.

Family members of 32 Sosma detainees have ended a hunger strike, but the detainees will carry on, an activist said today. Azura Nasron of the Suaram human rights group told FMT the hunger strike ...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told a mother who has been on hunger strike for 140 days that he will press the Egyptian government to release her son. In a statement ...

KAMPALA - A prominent opposition figure in Uganda who is on trial in a military tribunal has begun a hunger strike, his wife said, two weeks after the country's top court banned courts-martial ...

Ugandan former presidential candidate Kizza Besigye has gone on hunger strike, his lawyer told AFP Wednesday, months into his detention by authorities after he was snatched from neighbouring Kenya.

Uganda's government said Sunday it would drop a military trial against opposition figurehead Kizza Besigye, urging him to give up his hunger strike in jail, a minister said. The pledge was ...