ADELAIDE, Australia – Ten asylum seekers at an Australian detention center have sewn their lips together to protest delays in processing their refugee applications, as the government warned that ...

Dariush Jalali, a student at Iran's Yasuj University who had sewn his lips together to protest the pressure he had been facing over his activism, has reportedly been arrested. Reports say Jalali had ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – More than 1,000 prisoners in Kyrgyzstan have sewn their lips together, a grotesque act inmates describe as a protest of their dismal conditions, but which authorities blame on ...

ADELAIDE, Australia — Ten asylum seekers at an Australian detention center have sewn their lips together to protest delays in processing their refugee applications, as the government warned that ...

More than 1,000 prisoners in this former Soviet republic have sewn their lips together in what inmates describe as a protest of their dismal conditions but authorities blame on organized criminal ...

A small group of Iranian men are sewing together their lips in protest after they were evicted from the Calais camp, which French authorities dismantled earlier this week. The camp -- known as "The ...

Four North African migrants being held in Italy have sewn their lips together in protest of their detention. The men, aged 20 to 30, used a thread from a blanket and a small needle to complete their ...

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 ...