Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 1992 Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike was a widespread hunger strike undertaken by Palestinians in Israeli custody in the autumn of 1992. One Palestinian prisoner died as a result of the hunger strike, while several Palestinian were killed and several hundred injured by Israeli forces in demonstrations in support of the prisoners.
On February 23, 2010, Orlando Zapata, a dissident arrested in 2003 as part of a crackdown on opposition groups, died in a hospital while undertaking a hunger strike that had been ongoing for 85 days. His hunger strike was a protest against poor prison conditions. Amnesty International had declared him a prisoner of conscience. [40]
Irish prisoners who died on hunger strike (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "People who died on hunger strike" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
The rioting lasted a week and resulted in the deaths of 23 blacks and 15 whites and left over 1,000 people, mostly black, homeless. 38 537 1916–21 Political, organized crime Aldermen's wars - Alderman John Powers and challenger Anthony D'Andrea battled over control of Chicago's 19th Ward, located in Little Italy. Both were associated with ...
Grup Yorum [2] Helin Bölek; Ibrahim Gökçek; Irish republicans all died while on hunger strike. Thomas Ashe (1917) Terence MacSwiney (1920 Cork hunger strike) Michael Fitzgerald (1920 Cork hunger strike) Joe Murphy (1920 Cork hunger strike) Denny Barry (1923 Irish hunger strikes) Andy O'Sullivan (1923 Irish hunger strikes) Joseph Whitty (1923 ...
CHICAGO — The names of four fallen officers, including one who died more than 100 years ago, were added Wednesday to the memorial wall at Gold Star Families Memorial and Park, just east of ...
QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas attempted suicide earlier this week and is now on a hunger strike at a prison in Guayaquil to protest his arrest, his lawyer Sonia Vera ...
Chicago shooting or Chicago massacre may refer to: Haymarket affair; Chicago race riot of 1919, a racial conflict between White-Americans and African-Americans, that killed 38 people (23 of whom were Black and 15 were White) Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, a gang shooting in February 1929 that killed seven people at Lincoln Park