List of hunger strikes
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This is an incomplete list of hunger strikes and people who have conducted a hunger strike.
Hunger strikes
- Guantánamo Bay hunger strikes
- 1981 Irish hunger strike
- 1983 International Fast For Life (thousands fasted against nuclear armament and world hunger)
- 1986 Veterans Fast For Life (against U.S. policies in Central America)
- 2009 Tamil diaspora protests
- 2012 Palestinian mass hunger strikes
- 2013 California prisoner hunger strike
Groups who have conducted hunger strikes
Individuals who have conducted a hunger strike
William (Bill) Coleman (British Citizen); 2007 to 2014 in CT, USA; longest in known US history; protesting his innocence; https://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-longest-hunger-strike/
- Meryem Altun, Turkey, prisoner, 2002. Died.
- Franklin Brito, Venezuela, land dispute, 2010. Died.
- Emil Calmanovici, Romania, political prisoner, 1956. Died.
- Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers union, Arizona, 1968, 1970, 1972.
- Andrey Derevyankin
- Ronald Easterbrook England, prisoner, 1997, 1999.
- Becky Edelsohn
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Akbar Ganji
- Andrias Ghukasyan
- Max Goldstein
- Anna Hazare
- J. B. S. Haldane
- Barry Horne
- Samer Tariq Issawi
- Lucy, Lady Houston
- Poopathy Kanapathipillai
- Jack Kevorkian
- Jüri Kukk
- Gloria Lee
- Haia Lifşiţ
- Anatoly Marchenko
- Holger Meins
- Akbar Mohammadi
- Tony Nicklinson
- Jock Palfreeman
- Rasaiah Parthipan
- Vasudev Balwant Phadke
- Darshan Singh Pheruman
- Mahmudur Rahman, Bangladeshi news editor
- Militão Ribeiro
- Randall Robinson
- George Rolph
- Hoda Saber
- Kostas Sakkas
- Nigamananda Saraswati
- Jaume Sastre i Font, Catalan teacher in Mallorca
- Nadiya Savchenko, Ukrainian volunteer helicopter pilot, kidnapped and illegally detained in Russian prison.
- Irom Sharmila
- Mohamed Soltan, Egyptian opposition activist, 2014
- Theresa Spence
- Potti Sreeramulu
- Judith Todd
- Sergey Udaltsov, Russian opposition activist, 2011 and 2014
- Lin Yi-hsiung
- Lluís Maria Xirinacs, Catalan politician, writer, and religious leader
- Mohamed soltan, Egyptian prison, +365 days
- Surat Singh Khalsa, Sikh Activist, +301 days
References
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