Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas has ended his hunger strike after the government announced it was freeing 52 political prisoners. Mr Farinas, who has been refusing...

Cuba has relaxed the prison regime for political detainees after talks with Roman Catholic leaders, a prominent dissident has said. Prisoners held far from their homes...

A Colombian presidential candidate has chained himself to a statue in Bogota, to protest against what he says is biased media coverage of his campaign. Standing next...

It is not the face Cuba’s leaders wanted to project: the eyes are sunken, the cheeks hollow, the expression grim. Guillermo Fariñas is entering his sixth week of...

Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas, who remains hospitalized amid a hunger strike to demand the release of ailing political prisoners, declined Madrid’s offer of...

The mother of Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who died last month after an 85-day hunger strike, demanded on Monday that the government provide to her...

Cuba says it will not be “blackmailed” by a dissident journalist who is on hunger strike to seek the release of ailing political prisoners. Guillermo...

It marks a rare expression of sorrow by the country’s leadership, often rebuked over its human rights record. Orlando Zapata Tamayo died in hospital in Havana on...

The Polizario’s defense minister brother and the Secretary General of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah said from Madrid that Spain...

A landowner who had his land expropriated by the Chavez government and who recently called off a prolonged hunger strike in a long-running dispute with the National...

Finally 11-day long hunger strike by Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leader K. Chandrasekhar Rao for a separate Telangana state ends with Indian Govt. confirming the...

President Hugo Chávez’s government says Julio Cesar Rivas is a violent militant intent on fomenting civil war. Rivas’s supporters say the 22-year-old...

More than 150 Venezuelan university students ended a hunger strike Wednesday after the Organization of American States agreed to hear their concerns over alleged...

58 days ago four courageous Tunisian student committed themselves to a hunger strike whose symbolism extended beyond that of the university, but was and is a statement...

At the current dollar-ruble exchange rate of 23.5:1, 7,000 rubles amounts to $297.87. That’s the average monthly wage of a petrochemical worker in Russia’s...

Leftist politicians in Mexico who last week stormed both houses of Congress have vowed to remain in protest at planned reform of the state oil giant.