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 ...

Dariush Jalali, a student at Iran's Yasuj University who had sewn his lips together to protest the pressure ... Why with chained feet? I sewed my lips because no one heard my cry against injustice.

At least two of the mostly Middle Eastern and Central Asian asylum seekers had sewed their lips together to draw attention to their plight. At the beginning of the year, hundreds of detainees ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A 27-year-old Iranian man sewed his lips together at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation in the city's north ...

According to Mr Zhusupbekov, inmates only started to sew their lips together - an act he said was forced on frightened prisoners by the criminal gang in his facility - after raids on cells in mid ...