Bahraini human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja says she will travel home next week and take the risk of detention in order to raise awareness over her father’s imprisonment.

Hunger-striking Bahraini political prisoners have rejected the Al Khalifah regime’s concessions, and said they will extend their protest action.

Bahrainis stage rallies in the country to show solidarity with hunger-striking prisoners at the notorious Jau Prison and demand their immediate release.

Hundreds of Palestinians being held at detention centers across the occupied territories have staged an open-ended hunger strike in protest at mistreatment by prison forces.

Israel generally keeps Palestinian prisoners under deplorable conditions lacking proper hygienic standards.

Abduljalil al-Singace was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 over what the Bahraini regime claimed to be terrorism-related charges.

How has it come to this? That to support the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom is to live with death and accept it as the norm. I choose not to accept it. I choose to avenge Adnan’s murder, writes Sarah Wilkinson.