Guantánamo Bay hunger strikes

The mothers of two slain Gezi protesters have launched a one-day hunger strike as a show of support to two educators who have been on hunger strike for over 65 days. 

Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça went on a hunger strike on March 10 in Ankara, demanding to be returned to their jobs, which they lost with a state of emergency decree.

One of the co-chairs of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, ended a hunger strike the same day he started it on March 31. 

Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed co-chair of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), will start a hunger strike on March 31 to protest "inhumane treatment," along with jailed HDP deputy Abdullah Zeydan.  

Last week, HDP Siirt deputy Besime Konca started a hunger strike in the Kandıra Prison. 

A Palestinian held by Israel without trial has slipped into a coma after a nearly two-month hunger strike, his lawyer said on August 14.
 
"I was informed yesterday evening by the (Israeli) hospital where he is being held that he had fallen into a coma," Jamil al-Khatib, the attorney of detainee Mohammed Allan, told AFP.
 

The extension of detention for Oliver Ivanovic - who has embarked on a hunger strike - is "scandalous," Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Friday.

Four Spanish and one Azerbaijani transsexual prisoners have gone on hunger strike after they were moved to a different cell and separated from their previous Turkish transsexual cellmates, saying the Turkish inmates had been helpful in overcoming the language barrier.

After a court rejected an appeal by the hunger-striking imprisoned anarchist Nikos Romanos for study furloughs, Justice Minister Haralambos Athanasiou on Wednesday heralded legislative reform that would allow inmates to study while serving prison sentences.

Proposed legislation to permit the force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike is pitting Israel's government against the country's main doctors' association, which says the practice amounts to torture.