Bahrain prisoners on hunger strike over jail conditions
Thursday, 10 August 2023 Inmates at Bahrain's Jau prison have launched a hunger strike in protest against harsh living conditions and restrictions on prayer, according to activists. Jau prison holds dissidents imprisoned during a 2011 crackdown on Shiite-led protests. The prisoners are calling for proper medical care, access to education and permission to pray together at a prison mosque while they are kept in their cells 23 hours a day.
An Iranian immigrant to the United States who was jailed in Tehran, and his son camping outside the White House have together gone on hunger strikes to win the elder's freedom after he was not included..
Families wait outside Yangon's Insein prison as Myanmar's junta releases over 7,000 people to mark Buddhist Lent. Buses carry released prisoners and leave the prison premises. Myanmar reduced ousted..
Thursday, 10 August 2023
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