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 ...

"This is distressing for me and most of the Australian people," he said. Mr Bowen confirmed that 160 people were engaged in a peaceful protest and 10 of whom have sewn shut their lips. He said they ...

A prominent Iranian activist has sewn his lips together and is holding daily protests in Tehran following the apparent suicide last week of a fellow campaigner, he posted on social media on Thursday.

THREE asylum seekers who have sewn their lips together in protest at Darwin's immigration detention centre have stopped taking fluids. The three Faili Kurdish men angry with delays in learning their ...

Some migrants walking north from near the Guatemalan border in protest of a deadly fire are also having their lips sewed shut. (April 26) (AP video: Raúl Mendoza) Yahoo Sports ...