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DUBAI (Reuters) -Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike on Monday in protest against what she said was the jail's failure to give her access to medical care, the activist HRANA news agency reported. The women's rights advocate won the award on Oct. 6 in a rebuke to Tehran's theocratic leaders, who accused the Nobel committee of meddling and politicizing the issue of human rights. HRANA said authorities had not let the 51-year-old go to hospital for heart and lung treatment last week because she had refused to wear a mandatory head sc...

DUBAI/OSLO (Reuters) -Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike on Monday in protest against what she said was the jail's failure to give her access to medical care, the activist HRANA news agency reported. The women's rights advocate won the award on Oct. 6 in a rebuke to Tehran's theocratic leaders, who accused the Nobel committee of meddling and politicizing the issue of human rights. HRANA said authorities had not let the 51-year-old go to hospital for heart and lung treatment last week because she had refused to wear a mandatory he...

Brian Downey, former Airmont deputy mayor, gets 8 months in federal prison on gun charges. He suffered serious injuries in a motor vehicle accident.

Notorious serial killer and rapist Richard Ramirez dubbed The Night Stalker, died of natural causes on June 7, 2013. The convicted murderer was serving time on death row in California’s San Quentin State Prison. Prison authorities moved him to Marin General Hospital north of San Francisco where the 53-year-old reportedly died of complications caused by […] The post The Night Stalker: Is Serial Killer Richard Ramirez Dead? appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, an