A mother in the United States tried to sew her adopted daughter’s mouth shut and forced her to eat dirty cat litter, police have said. Rana Cooper, 46, was arrested earlier this week and has now ...

A man with mental health issues who recently sewed his lips together and “smashed” his head against a wall is being held in immigration detention in breach of the law, lawyers have said.

Alejo sewed his lips together after doctors made fun of his hunger strike during one of the hospital visits, telling him that a good meal could fix whatever was ailing him, Liranza added.

A TRAINEE GP who sewed his lips together and threatened to decapitate another doctor “al Qaida-style” has voluntarily removed himself from the medical register. Dr Mohammad Reza Heidari was on ...

At least ten asylum seekers at an Australian detention centre have sewed their lips together in protest at the amount of time their visa applications are taking to be processed. By Leah Hyslop 23 ...

LA PAZ, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El Alto sewed their lips together on Wednesday as part of a hunger strike to demand that the mayor reopen brothels and bars ordered ...

At least five migrants stuck on the Greek-Macedonian border on Monday sewed their lips in protest at not being allowed to continue their journey to Europe, AFP reporters said. The men, who say ...

The three Faili Kurdish men angry with delays in learning their fate sewed their lips together on Monday last week. Two other Kurdish men deliberately overdosed at the facility that same day but ...

The men - some of whom appear to be from Iran's Kurdish minority - sewed their mouths shut and ... between Greece and Macedonia sewed their lips together to protest against not being allowed ...

News UK has been contacted for comment. Rev Tim Hewes sewed his lips shut yesterday and stood outside the main entrance of News Corps UK offices. He was drawing attention to the silencing of climate ...