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(IsraelNN.com) The most senior Palestinian Authority terrorist imprisoned in Israel, Fatah Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti, is not as steadfast as they come. According to the Prison Authority, which is continuing to serve food to the hunger strikers among the imprisoned terrorists, Barghouti has covered his cell windows with newspaper and has eaten despite his declared participation in the strike. Barghouti is kept in solitary imprisonment, apart from the other Arab prisoners. The terrorist prisoners' hunger strike is in its fourth day.

The Palestinian Authority has designated tomorrow as a day of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, who began an open-ended hunger strike Sunday to protest prison conditions. A general strike will be announced in the territories, and parading residents and relatives of the prisoners will be called on to begin a hunger strike themselves. The hunger strike which began at three prisons is expected to expand today to three other prisons - Nafha, Eshel, and Ohalei Keidar. The strikers are demanding removal of glass partitions separating them from visiting relatives, access to public phones, and an end to strip-searches....

Eight inmates refusing food at Florida State Prison By Associated Press February 3, 2004 STARKE — Eight inmates on the disciplinary wing at Florida State Prison, including two charged in the June beating death of a correctional officer, are on a hunger strike over what they claim are basic human needs for recreation, decent food, visitation and access to canteen items. According to the Florida Department of Corrections, eight of the 24 inmates on Q wing are in the strike, which began Sunday. A statement released by the inmates through the Florida Death Row Advocacy Group, states: "On Feb. 1,...

A Palestinian activist and former college professor who has been in federal custody in Chicago since September has been indicted on a single criminal contempt charge for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the terrorist group Hamas. Federal prosecutors in Chicago announced the indictment Friday against Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar, the same day U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and Chicago FBI Agent-in-Charge Tom Kneir paid a visit to the heavily Palestinian Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview. Ashqar, 45, a Palestinian native and former adjunct business professor at Howard University, had been granted immunity from prosecution for his testimony by U.S....

Five Iranian opposition hunger strikers hospitalized in France Mon Jun 23, 3:41 AM ET Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo! AUVERS-SUR-OISE, France (AFP) - Five hunger strikers close to the Iranian opposition People's Mujahedeen have been hospitalized in Cergy-Pontoise near their base in this town northwest of Paris, police said. Forty-eight people started a hunger strike on Thursday after a crackdown by French police on the People's Mujahedeen with some of them, including the five hospitalized, also refusing water. Three people were evacuated after feeling ill on Sunday and two women were taken out on Sunday evening, AFP reporters...

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the man convicted of masterminding the abduction and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, has ended a week-long hunger strike. Prison officials say the convict, also known as Omar Sheikh, began a hunger strike a week ago to force the police to admit to the alleged detention of three other men suspected of abducting and murdering Mr Pearl. Investigators have confirmed to journalists on condition of anonymity the detention of these three men, described as "the real killers" by Omar Sheikh, although the police have publicly denied making such arrests. Omar Sheikh and three...

<p>SEVILLE, Spain (AP) -- A dramatic example of Europe's immigration woes greeted European Union leaders meeting to discuss how to deal with the influx of foreigners.</p> <p>Some 460 would-be immigrants who have been staging a sit-in at a university outside Seville since June 10 held a two-day hunger strike to press their demands for work and residency papers.</p>

Ramleh, May, 13, 2002, Wafa - An American activist held in an Israeli jail has collapsed nine days into a hunger strike protesting his detention, his lawyer said.Trevor Baumgardner from Seattle, Washington, was among a group of pro-Palestinian activists who attempted to enter the Church of the Nativity compound in Bethlehem on May 2. Ten made it into the church in defiance of Israeli troops. Thirteen other members of International Solidarity Movement - a group devoted to focusing attention on the Palestinians - were arrested, nine of whom have been deported. The remaining four, all U.S. citizens, are on a...

<p>GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba — Two detainees pressed ahead with a two-week hunger strike Tuesday after one of the men begged journalists to publicize their plight, saying “Nobody cares.” “We are on a hunger strike. We’ve been on a hunger strike for 14 days and nobody cares,” a male detainee shouted Monday night as a van carrying journalists circled the perimeter of Camp X-ray, the temporary detention camp on this remote outpost where 300 men are being held.</p>