Hunger striker hospitalized
A dismissed Antique provincial official, who has been on hunger strike to protest his non-reinstatement, was hospitalized on Monday after complaining of dizziness in the capital town of San Jose.
A dismissed Antique provincial official, who has been on hunger strike to protest his non-reinstatement, was hospitalized on Monday after complaining of dizziness in the capital town of San Jose.
A dismissed official of the Antique provincial government is on his third day of hunger strike to protest his nonreinstatement by Gov. Exequiel Javier.
Detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp have launched a hunger strike to protest interference with their personal effects, including Korans, their lawyers and prison officials said Monday.
Setting aside differences with Malacañang, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Thursday pleaded with President Aquino to meet with 56 farmers on a hunger strike to dramatize demands for the swift implementation of agrarian reform commitments he made to them six months ago.
At least 16 farmers have collapsed since a militant group began a hunger strike on Monday to press demands for the ouster of Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio delos Reyes for allegedly failing to carry out commitments made to them personally by President Aquino six months ago, organizers said Wednesday.
Hundreds of farmers are poised to go on a hunger strike beginning Thursday to press President Benigno Aquino to make a firm commitment that he will complete the agrarian reform program before its expiration in two years.
More than 100 Egyptians held since a mass arrest over two weeks ago began an open-ended hunger strike Sunday to protest their continued detention and the possibility they will face military prosecution, activists said.
Since his imprisonment in February, once frail and wan poet-songwriter Ericson Acosta has put on 10-12 pounds, a weight gain that has equipped him with strength and endurance for an ongoing hunger strike.
TAGUM CITY—More than 500 inmates of the Compostela Valley provincial jail here have gone on hunger strike and staged noise barrages for days now to press authorities to speed up the disposition of their cases, the release of political prisoners and address other grievances, including prison congestion. “This has been going on since last week,” [...]
ILOILO CITY—Eight political prisoners on Tuesday started an eight-day hunger strike in Iloilo as part of nationwide protest actions aimed at demanding the release of all political detainees. The eight detainees, languishing in jail at the Iloilo Rehabilitation Center in Pototan, Iloilo, 34 kilometers north of Iloilo City, started to shun from solid food and [...]
