Alexey Navalny says he wants the prison holding him outside Moscow to provide him with proper medical care.
Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested in 2018 and charged with spying, spreading propaganda and insulting Iran's supreme leader.
Palestinian Maher al Akhras began a hunger strike 79 days ago against his detention without charge by Israel. Human rights groups say Israeli administrative detention violates the right to due process.
The Ukrainian film director is on day 89 of a hunger strike. He was sentenced by a Russian court to 20 years in prison for "terrorist attacks" in Crimea.
Around 6,500 Palestinians are still behind bars in prisons across Israel and the occupied West Bank, and imprisonment is almost a rite of passage for many Palestinians.
Teenagers in a village of Nabi Saleh near the city of Ramallah protest Israeli forces as around 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners have been on hunger strike for more than one month.
Nakba Day commemorates the destruction of hundreds of villages in historical Palestine and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people from their land to make way for the new state of Israel in 1948.
Hundreds of Palestinian inmates began a hunger strike on Monday to mark their protest against poor conditions in Israeli prisons.
Palestinians termed the open-ended strike a protest against poor conditions and an Israeli policy of detention without trial that has been applied against thousands since the 1980s.
Jihad Diyab, who was relocated from Guantanamo to Uruguay nearly two years ago, was detained after traveling to Caracas in July in an apparent attempt to see family
Ukrainian servicewoman Nadiya Savchenko arrives home after 709 days in Russian captivity.
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