Hunger Strikes

Hunger Strike At Texas Detention Center Swells Into The Hundreds

November 4, 2015 Kanya D'Almeida, www.rhrealitycheck.org Resist! Hunger Strikes, Immigration, Texas

By Kanya D'Almeida for RH Reality Check - The number of hunger strikers at a Texas immigrant detention facility has swelled to almost 500 since last Wednesday, an Austin-based advocacy group revealed in a phone call with RH Reality Check. When news of the protest action broke on October 28, about 27 women at the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, 35 miles east of Austin, were reportedly refusing their meals. While grievances ranged from abusive treatment by guards to a lack of medical care, the women, hailing primarily from Central America, were unanimous in their one demand: immediate release.

Hunger Strike Over Last British Guantanamo Bay Detainee

October 20, 2015 Alexandra Sims, www.independent.co.uk www.fastforshaker.org.uk Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Hunger Strikes

By Alexandra Sims for Independent - Conservative MP David Davis is one of numerous politicians and celebrities taking part in a 24-hour hunger strike in support of Shaker Aamer, the last British prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay. Mr Davis was set to begin his fast on Sunday after being persuaded to join the initiative, Fast for Shaker, upon learning that Mr Aamer is himself on a hunger strike, protesting his alleged continued mistreatment at the US-run detention centre in Cuba. “Now that we are probably only two weeks away from his release I was very worried that he would harm himself just shy of coming home,” Mr Davis told Middle East Eye.

After Year Long Hunger Strike Mohamed Soltan Released In Egypt

May 31, 2015 Staff, www.aljazeera.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Egypt, Human Rights, Hunger Strikes

By Al Jazeera Staff. Jailed activist Mohamed Soltan, who has been on hunger strike for over a year in protest against his detention in Egypt, has been freed and sent back to his home country, the United States. Soltan, a 27-year-old US-Egyptian dual citizen and human rights activist, was arrested in September 2013 when police was searching for his father, a senior member of the now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group. Last month, Soltan was sentenced to life in prison for allegedly supporting the group, a verdict his family challenges, saying that there was no evidence against him. A website calling for his release also said he was not a member of the Brotherhood, describing him as a US-educated peace activist who was involved in youth events and charities.

Hunger Strikes At Secret US Prison In Afghanistan

July 17, 2014 Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com Resist! Guantanamo, Hunger Strikes, Prison

Sometimes they stopped eating to protest unclean drinking water. Other times they stopped eating because their comrades were placed in segregated housing. Still other times they stopped eating out of dissatisfaction with their access to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), their only source of connection to their families and the outside world. Without any visibility beyond the walls of their prison, non-Afghan detainees that the US holds in almost complete secrecy in Afghanistan have engaged in hunger strikes, the Guardian has confirmed. The hunger strikes are reminiscent, on smaller scale, of those at Guantánamo Bay that seized the world's attention last year. Confirmation of the strikes, from multiple sources as well as first-hand testimony of a former detainee, comes despite the US military refusing to disclose practically anything about the conditions of confinement for nearly 40 men held in a section of a prison, known as the Detention Facility in Parwan, on the outskirts of Bagram airfield. While the US no longer detains Afghans at Bagram following a transfer of the prison, it continues to hold 38 non-Afghans there, most of them Pakistanis. Nearly 13 years after 9/11, they comprise the most secretive cohort of detainees still held by the US. One Pakistani detainee, recently released from Bagram, said his and others' periodic hunger strikes were prompted by a lack of options.

A Year After Mass Hunger Strike In CA Prisons

July 7, 2014 Victoria Law, www.truth-out.org Resist! California, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Hunger Strikes

On July 8, 2013, 30,000 California prisoners launched what became a 60-day mass hunger strike. One year later, however, Luis Esquivel is still sitting in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) in solitary confinement in California's Pelican Bay State Prison. "Right now, my uncle is in his cell with no windows," said his niece, Maribel Herrera. "It's like sitting in a bathroom - your sink is there, your toilet is there, your bed is there. And you're just sitting there. I can only think about that for so long because it hurts." Herrera's uncle has been in solitary confinement for 15 years. "I hadn't seen my uncle since I was a child," said Herrera. "I can't even remember hugging him." When she visited him in 2012, her first-ever visit to Pelican Bay, more than 850 miles away from her family's home in San Diego, hers was the first visit Esquivel had received in seven years. Esquivel is one of the plaintiffs in Ashker v. Brown, a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of Pelican Bay prisoners who have spent 10 or more years in the SHU. In the SHU, people are locked in their cells for at least 22 hours a day. Those accused of gang membership or association are placed in the SHU for an indeterminate length of time. Accusations of gang involvement often rely on confidential informants and circumstantial evidence. Hundreds have been confined within the SHU for more than a decade. Until recently, the only way to be released from the SHU was to debrief, or provide information incriminating other prisoners, who are then placed in the SHU for an indeterminate sentence.

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