We are deeply concerned about the lingering fear that haunts pirs, fakirs, khadems, Bauls, and other spiritual practitioners even months after the wave of attacks on shrines, Sufi darbars, and Baul ...

JENIN, Palestine - Former Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras, who was on a hunger strike for 103 days, believes he succeeded in exposing Israeli occupation. "My will has triumphed over the Israeli ...

Maher al-Akhras has not eaten for 87 days in protest against detention without charge A Palestinian man who is approaching 90 days without eating in protest against Israel’s extensive use of detention ...

A Palestinian local committee in Gaza on Wednesday urged the international human rights groups to urgently put pressure on the Israeli authorities to save the life of Palestinian detainee Maher ...

People gather to support Maher al-Akhras, a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jail who is on a hunger strike, in Al-Bireh, West Bank, on October 27, 2020. (Issam Rimawi / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images ...

Israeli authorities have released Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras, who spent 103 days on hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention. Akhras suspended the hunger strike on 8 ...

Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras is on the “verge of death”, after passing 100 days on hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention by Israeli authorities. The European External ...

Maher al-Akhras, 49, who has refused to eat since being arrested in July, will be released by Israeli authorities on 26 November A Palestinian prisoner held by Israel has agreed to end more than 100 ...

HOMS, Syria – Over the course of the 700-day blockade, her world shrunk to her living room and her kitchen. She survived by eating plants and reading books. She refused to look in the mirror, because ...

Our article, 'The Acton Spring? How unrest in Syria spilled over into the respectable streets of West London' (4 November 2011) referred to a 'classified 2008 cable from the then-US charge d'affaires ...