World Briefing | Middle East: Bahrain: Activist to End 110-Day Hunger Strike
A detained human rights activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, announced Monday that he would end his 110-day hunger strike. full story 
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World Briefing | Middle East: Bahrain: Dozens Hurt During Protests
Dozens of people were injured as protesters clashed with the riot police on Thursday on the second anniversary of a Saudi-led military intervention in Bahrain.
nytimes.com (3 months and 5 days ago)
World Briefing | Middle East: Bahrain: Young Protester Killed
A teenager was killed during clashes with security forces on Thursday, on the second anniversary of the start of the protest movement calling for democratic change in Bahrain.
nytimes.com (4 months and 3 days ago)
Rights groups fears for hunger strikers in Bahrain
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A rights group says two imprisoned pro-democracy activists on hunger strike to protest their detention in crisis-hit Bahrain have started refusing water.
boston.com (2 months and 25 days ago)
Video: A Bahraini activist discusses her family's hunger strikes
Last week, almost two years after being imprisoned as part of Bahrain's crackdown on activists, a Bahraini human rights advocate named Abdulhadi al-Khawaja began a "dry" hunger strike, meaning that he would consume neither foods nor liquids. On Sunday, his daughter Zainab, a fellow activist and young mother who was arrested in late 2012, began her own dry hunger strike....
washingtonpost.com (2 months and 24 days ago)
World Briefing | Middle East: Bahrain: 2 Officers Are Sentenced for Torturing a Protester to Death
A defense lawyer in Bahrain said two police officers were sentenced to 10 years in prison for the fatal beating of an antigovernment protester in 2011.
nytimes.com (3 months and 7 days ago)
World Briefing | Middle East: West Bank: Palestinians Stage Protests
Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers on Friday at demonstrations in the West Bank that were held to support a prisoner who has been on an off-again-on-again hunger strike.
nytimes.com (4 months and 2 days ago)
Pussy Riot prisoner, 24, has ended her 11-day hunger strike after 'staff met her demands to end persecution against her'
Maria Alekhina, a jailed member of the punk group Pussy Riot, has ended her 11-day hunger strike today after prison authorities met her demands, an activist said.
dailymail.co.uk (17 days ago)
Rights groups fears for hunger strikers in Bahrain
A rights group says two imprisoned pro-democracy activists on hunger strike to protest their detention in crisis-hit Bahrain have started refusing water.
azstarnet.com (2 months and 25 days ago)
Rights groups fears for hunger strikers in Bahrain
A rights group says two imprisoned pro-democracy activists on hunger strike to protest their detention in crisis-hit Bahrain have started refusing water.
foxnews.com (2 months and 25 days ago)
Rights groups fears for hunger strikers in Bahrain
A rights group says two imprisoned pro-democracy activists on hunger strike to protest their detention in crisis-hit Bahrain have started refusing water.
miamiherald.com (2 months and 25 days ago)
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