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"I am going on hunger strike knowing full well that I may not survive it," he wrote.

Chelsea Manning is protesting her treatment in prison by going on hunger strike, she has announced in a statement .

LONDON (Reuters) - A British-Iranian aid worker who has been jailed in Tehran is going on hunger strike in protest at her treatment, her employer and her husband said.

LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A British-Iranian aid worker who has been jailed in Tehran is going on hunger strike in protest at her treatment, her employer and her husband said.

One of the unions, APE, gave up the strike on Tuesday, but Sindepor stuck to its guns and its president Carlos Ramalho decided to up the ante by going on hunger strike.

Prior to receiving clemency, Manning has continued suffering, going on hunger strike and attempting suicide twice, while being held in solitary confinement for intermittent periods at the prison barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police detained 61 protesters in the capital Ankara on Sunday demonstrating in support of two teachers jailed two months ago for going on hunger strike, private broadcaster CNN Turk reported.

After going on hunger strike and staging protests against the purges, Gulmen was arrested in May and last week a court convicted her of being a member of the outlawed militant leftist DHKP-C group, a charge she denies.

KIEV (Reuters) - A prominent TV talkshow host in Ukraine declared on Tuesday he was going on hunger strike in protest over a decision by state authorities to strip him of his work permit, a move he described as politically motivated.

DONETSK, Russia (Reuters) - A Ukrainian woman pilot, on trial in Russia on charges of complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists, told a court on Thursday she was going on hunger strike to protest at the length of what she said was an unjust legal process.

When he announced he was going on hunger strike, he sent letters to President TrumpDonald John TrumpDem lawmaker says Nunes threatened to sue him over criticism Parnas: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed to clear path for investigations into Bidens Five takeaways from Parnas's Maddow interview MORE and Vice President Pence.

He had disclosed to the Associated Press that a political prisoner, Akbar Mohammadi had died in prison after going on hunger strike to protest the lack of proper medical care.

Ronald Leonard Easterbrook (11 May 1931 – 10 May 2009) was a convicted armed robber and self-confessed career criminal. Easterbrook is most notable for going on hunger strike in protest over his conviction for an armed robbery in Woolwich in November 1987 in which fellow armed robber Anthony Ash was shot dead by police.

She ends up going on hunger strike to show how much she doesn't want marry him, but have no choice, and the two end up getting married. Nevertheless, she ends up with Ignatius by novela's end. The delegate, in love with the Queen Helena, annuls his own marriage to Antônia. Throughout the novela, Úrsula falls in love with Captain Herculano.

Protests have taken place in Nindar against the compensation being offered for a proposed housing scheme. Farmers have been burying themselves neck-deep or going on hunger strike. The housing scheme is supposed to construct up to 10,000 homes. The Dravyavati river is being constructed by capturing the private land of the poor farmers situated by the JDA at Goner village.

A Suffragette being force fed, in a contemporary poster Wharry was arrested and imprisoned eight times between 1910 and 1914 for her part in various WSPU window-smashing campaigns, sometimes under the name "Phyllis North", sometimes as "Joyce Locke". Each of her prison sentences were characterised by her going on hunger strike, being force-fed and then released under Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913, known as the Cat and Mouse Act. In May 1914 she was sentenced to a week in prison after taking part in a deputation to King George V. It was a matter of honour to Wharry not to complete any prison sentence, and, after again going on hunger strike, she was released after three days. In June 1914 she was arrested at Carnarvon after breaking windows at Criccieth during a meeting held by Lloyd George.

'Suffragist Disturbance: Balls of iron thrown in White City', The Manchester Guardian, 7 September 1909. Two days later they were released from Strangeways after going on hunger strike for which she received a Hunger Strike Medal from the WSPU.'Suffragists Released: "Hunger strike" at Strange Ways', The Manchester Guardian, 9 September 1909. In October 1909 she was again arrested in Manchester and sent to Strangeways.

Two days later they were released from Strangeways after going on hunger strike.'Suffragists Released: "Hunger strike" at Strange Ways', The Manchester Guardian, 9 September 1909. On 4 December 1909 Tolson, Dora Marsden and Winson Etherley were arrested for breach of the peace for disrupting an appearance by Winston Churchill at the Empire Theatre in Southport. Charges were dismissed at their court appearance later that week.

Ebru Timtik (1978 – August 27, 2020) was a KurdishKurdish human rights lawyer Ebru Timtik dies after 238-day hunger strike, By Dana Kennedy, New York Post, August 29, 2020 -Turkish human rights lawyer who died after going on hunger strike in pursuit of a fair trial. She was one of a group of 18 lawyers known for representing clients critical of the Turkish government, who were arrested in September 2017.

Unwilling to admit any guilt by paying a fine, most of the arrested picketers were place in the Occoquan Workhouse. Here, many women, including Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, protested their sentence, and the poor conditions of the facility by going on hunger strike. In addition to using this physical protest as a political weapon, the women defended themselves in court. They pleaded not guilty to the charges of obstructing traffic.

He was first jailed at Norgerhaven in Veenhuizen, where he gained a degree in political science from the University of Leiden in 1988. After a foiled escape attempt, Reeve was moved to a maximum security prison at the Scheveningen branch of the Hague Penitentiary Institution. He responded by going on hunger strike for 54 days. He also worked on his thesis "The creation and preservation of consciousness" (Het ontstaan en bewaren van bewustzijn).

Bertha Quinn (1873–1951) was a British suffragette and socialist, from Leeds, who was arrested five times and once went to prison, becoming one of the first Catholic suffragette prisoners to be force-fed after going on hunger strike. Quinn became a Labour councillor from 1929–43, and was a trades union representative of the Tailors and Garment Workers from 1915–43. Quinn was awarded the Papal Bene Merenti Medal in 1946.

In the article titled "H. Rap Brown From Prison: Lasime Tushinde Mbilashika", Brown writes of going on hunger strike and his willingness to give up his life for change. Brown is now known to have no direct relationship with the alleged riot of 1967. Documents from the Kerner Commission investigation show that he completed his speech at 10 pm July 24, then walked a woman home and was shot by a deputy sheriff allegedly without provocation.

At the time Bhim Singh's father Thakur Birbal was rallying against the government's land reforms in Jammu with Prem Nath Dogra and his anti-Abdullah Jammu Praja Parishad party. As a college student Bhim Singh was a political activist going on hunger strike as early as 1959. He was imprisoned for over 6 months from 1961-62 in Jammu Central Jail, where he shared a jail cell with Sheikh Nazir the future general secretary of the National Conference party.

Gambira reportedly protested his imprisonment by organising chanting with other imprisoned monks, boycotting his trial, and going on hunger strike. Human rights groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch also protested his imprisonment. Gambira was released during a mass pardon of prisoners on 13 January 2012 as part of the 2011–2012 Burmese political reforms. He ceased to be a monk in April 2012, stating that he had been unable to find a monastery to join due to his status as a former prisoner.

Parker joined other suffragettes in defiantly embroidering her signature on a piece of cloth, under the eyes of the wardresses, now known as The Suffragette Handkerchief. Like many suffragettes she went on hunger strike and was subjected to force-feeding. alt= Later that year she was imprisoned twice, once for breaking windows, and once for breaking into The Music Hall in Aberdeen with the intention of disrupting an appearance by David Lloyd George. On both occasions she was released after going on hunger-strike for several days.

Her refusal to speak English angered the guards, culminating in her going on hunger strike for a number of days in 1920 until she was released. She took part in the Cumann na mBan vigil outside of Mountjoy in November 1920, when Kevin Barry was hanged. She worked in Richard Mulcahy's house for two years, before emigrating to the United States in 1927 to continue her career as a nurse. She worked in Boston where she was an active member of the Irish emigrant community alongside former neighbours from the Aran Islands and some relatives.

In 2009 the U.S. government cleared Dhiab for release.. He was ultimately released in December 2014. During the interim years, Dhiab protested his continued detention by going on hunger strike, in response to which the government subjected Dhiab to forced cell extractions and force-feeding techniques. In 2013, Dhabi sought an injunction in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to stop the government from force-feeding him. In October 2014, District Judge Gladys Kessler determined that she had no jurisdiction over confinement conditions at Guantanamo.

Breen was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1923 general election as a Republican anti-Treaty Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary constituency. Following the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Breen joined the Anti-Treaty IRA in the Civil War, fighting against those of his former comrades in arms who supported the Treaty. He was arrested by the National Army of the Irish Free State and interned at Limerick Prison. He spent two months there before going on hunger strike for six days, followed by a thirst strike of six days.

Later in 1914 he was the official physician at the force-feeding of four female prisoners held at Perth Prison and subject to the new Cat and Mouse Act aimed to stem the suffragettes going on hunger strike. In this capacity he crossed swords with Arabella Scott, breaking her front teeth in the act of forcing the metal feed tube into her mouth.Scotsman newspaper 2 October 2019 The other suffragettes so appallingly treated were Mary Richardson, Frances Gordon, Maude Edwards and Fanny Parker. The method was changed from force-feeding to nutrient-rich suppositories, but if anything, this increased public outrage.

Aitken became active in the women's suffrage movement in the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) of the Pankhursts. In November 1911, she held the bridle of a police horse during a WSPU protest, and was arrested and sent to Holloway prison. In March 1912, she and Clara Giveen were arrested for damaging £100 of windows at Jay's clothing shop in London's Regent Street. In June 1912, she was released from Winson Green, having been transferred due to prison overcrowding, but near the end of a four-month prison sentence, during which she was force-fed after going on hunger strike.

On 17 September 1909, she, Charlotte Marsh and Patricia Woodlock climbed onto the roof of Bingley Hall in Birmingham to protest at being excluded from a political meeting where the British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith was giving a speech. They threw tiles which they levered up with an axe at Asquith's car and at the police. Leigh was given sentences totaling four months in Winson Green Prison. There she again protested about not being treated as a political prisoner by breaking a window and by going on hunger strike. Leigh and Patricia Woodlock were force- fed in Winson Green gaol in 1909.

Protests against the flooding of Capel Celyn in the 1950s further helped define its politics. These early events were followed by Evans's election to Parliament as the party's first Member of Parliament (MP) in 1966, the successful campaigning for the Welsh Language Act of 1967 and Evans going on hunger strike for a dedicated Welsh- language television channel in 1981. Plaid Cymru is the third largest political party in Wales, with 11 of 60 seats in the Senedd. From 2007 to 2011, it was the junior partner in the One Wales coalition government, with Welsh Labour.

The route through his lands was taken out of the book; however walkers still wandered onto his lands even when he posted "Keep Out" notices. The publicity raised by McSharry prompted other farmers to also defend their lands. In 2003, he was convicted of issuing threats to hillwalkers the previous year and, upon refusal to pay a €300 fine, was sent to prison for two weeks in January the following year. He had even considered going on hunger strike, saying the publicity generated by the case was attracting even more curious people onto his lands and that half a dozen people had even trampled down part of his fence. During an interview on his sentencing he said: “There is no way farmers can give away land to strangers.

Bennet was present at the founding of the Women's Tax Resistance League becoming a tax resister herself and in 1908 was a WFL delegate to the Amsterdam conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, University College London Press (1999) - Google Books pgs 49-50 Benett joined the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage (NCSWS) and was Treasurer of the Women's Freedom League from 1909 until her resignation in 1910 from which time she devoted her efforts to the more militant Women's Social and Political Union. She was one of 120 women arrested for demonstrating outside the House of Commons on 'Black Friday' in 1910 when many women were seriously assaulted by the police. suffragette window smashing campaign Benett took part in the WSPU's window smashing campaigns of 1911 and 1912 and was released early from her three month jail sentence in Holloway Prison in 1912 after going on hunger strike, for which action she received the Hunger Strike Medal and Holloway brooch from the WSPU.