On June 29 she ended a two-week hunger strike, her third hunger strike since being detained.
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In June, Nazanin staged a hunger strike in prison and her husband staged his own hunger strike in London to highlight her plight and push for her release.
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Hunger strike by hunger strike, petition by petition, lawsuit by lawsuit, they attempt — and sometimes, though often at tremendous personal cost, are able — to force the prison to reform.
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He also argued that hunger strike was not a crime.
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One pensioner, Tatiana Shmiganovskaya, even held a brief hunger strike.
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Sharmila will finally conclude her hunger strike on August 9.
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The hunger strike was said to have begun on Wednesday.
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Ms. Sharmila's hunger strike has been waged in relative isolation.
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One of their leaders, Jonathan Butler, began a hunger strike.
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"I decided I would start a hunger strike," she said.
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He was in the hospital recovering from a hunger strike.
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Emperial Young is on day eight of a hunger strike.
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Mothers detained there went on a hunger strike in 2016.
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He also is believed to be on a hunger strike.
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Details about the hunger strike at the M.C.C. were scarce.
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Hunger strike Earlier in January, Zaghari-Ratcliffe announced she will start a hunger strike on January 14 after being refused access to medical help, according to a letter published by an Iranian rights group.
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Macineiras himself was hospitalized for four days after his hunger strike.
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Bawazir was among prisoners who protested with a lengthy hunger strike.
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I am carrying out a hunger strike of my own will.
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Has being on hunger strike inside changed your perspective at all?
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He has launched a hunger strike to protest against the charges.
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He is now in his third month of that hunger strike.
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"The hunger strike is over," Mohammad Taghi Karroubi wrote on Twitter.
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Afgan Mukhtarli (Azerbaijan)Diabetic journalist on hunger strike in Azerbaijan prison.
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Through our hunger strike, we seek an end to these abuses.
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The Palestinian prison hunger strike hints at a leadership power struggle The Palestinian prison hunger strike hints at a leadership power struggle Jailed Palestinian activist Marwan Barghouti is back in the headlines this week after launching a massive hunger strike involving 1,100 prisoners throughout Israel, a move that could position him to be the next leader of a Palestinian state.
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Doctors continue to debate the ethics of force-feeding prisoners of conscience on a hunger strike, but based on official media accounts, it's likely that Irom's hunger strike wouldn't have been disastrous to her physical health.
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Savchenko has gone on hunger strike twice before, once for 83 days.
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The two, weakened by their hunger strike, are both now in wheelchairs.
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In 2012, he went on a hunger strike that lasted 110 days.
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Citing Depardon's lawyer, RSF said he started the hunger strike on Sunday.
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NEWPORT, Wales — Imam Sis has been on hunger strike since December 17.
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Three months into his hunger strike, Mohammed al Qiq's form is skeletal.
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Lateef Johar Baloch: I started my hunger strike on April 22, 2014.
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However, social media played the greatest role in highlighting my hunger strike.
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Some of the politicians and protest leaders also began a hunger strike.
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This month, Ms. Manning announced that she was on a hunger strike.
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Her hunger strike would continue into its fourth day by Thursday morning.
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He conducted a 101-day hunger strike in 2016 to protest conditions.
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So now me take only route available: me wage cookie hunger strike.
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The two then launched a hunger strike in protest in early September.
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Prisoners in California resumed their hunger strike at midnight on Oct. 1.
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In 1957 Sharik tried another hunger strike, this time for six days.
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In protest, against the travesty of justice, Moustafa declared a hunger strike.
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Two others began their hunger strike on January 30, according to ICE.
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More recently, he went on a hunger strike that seriously weakened him.
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Guven had been consuming water, vitamins and sugar during the hunger strike.
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Esraa Abdel Fattah (Egypt) Egyptian journalist on hunger strike tortured and hospitalized.
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After being transferred to Gharchak prison, she went on a hunger strike.
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If they put me in jail, I'll go on a hunger strike.
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She went on "dry" hunger strike, refusing both liquids and solid food.
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Related: Environmental Activist Near Death After 65-Day Hunger Strike in Trinidad Perhaps the longest hunger strike has been attributed to Bhagat Singh, a Indian socialist who was protested against the conditions of Indian prisoners in British-run jails.
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After, one black student, Jonathan Butler, decided to go on a hunger strike.
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The hunger strike was a bid not for death, but for "true life".
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Entries not relating to the hunger strike have been removed from the spreadsheet.
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Join a one-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Yarl's Wood strikers.
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He went on a "hunger strike" but was force-fed, the Guardian said.
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How have you and your team faced the challenges of the hunger strike?
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Otherwise, Bindu Ammini told the police, she would go on a hunger strike.
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"But you know, [because of the hunger strike] I asked for sunscreen instead."
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There were about twenty other Somali detainees in segregation for the hunger strike.
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Less than two weeks after the hunger strike, Suhr is not police chief.
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Ahmad Khan Rahimi also told a judge he is on a hunger strike.
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Union members welcomed the result and declared an end to their hunger strike.
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Farinas and about 20 other rights activists are on hunger-strike in Cuba.
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He had been on hunger strike since his capture and arrest on Monday.
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But he would protest in other ways, like going on a hunger strike.
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The film director apparently lost about 70 pounds while on the hunger strike.
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"I cannot take it anymore," said Samey, who was planning a hunger strike.
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Of the 6,177 security prisoners, about 1,200 have recently begun a hunger strike.
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The hunger strike started quietly on April 21, with little fanfare or press.
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Amnesty also said Dr. Djalali had been on a hunger strike since Dec.
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A year later, in January 2015, hundreds of men begin a hunger strike.
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Two of the 11 people began their hunger strike on Wednesday, officials added.
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On Friday, hundreds of people joined a hunger strike demanding the bill's withdrawal.
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As a neutral organization, she said the Red Cross took no position on the reasons or goals of the hunger strike and was neither trying to persuade the prisoners to end the hunger strike nor authorities to accept their demands.
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Some of the asylum seekers still in Norway have reportedly begun a hunger strike.
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He denies the charges and has been on a hunger strike since mid-May.
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Media reported they were angry about a lack of coverage of a hunger strike.
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For more than a week, some of the protesters have declared a hunger strike.
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They went on hunger strike and secured a transfer to a Northern Irish jail.
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After a subsequent hunger strike from Manning, the military agreed to grant her request.
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Yes, the hunger strike not only left long-lasting physical effects, but also mental.
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A prisoner-led hunger strike that changed policies at Pelican Bay was nationally reported.
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One woman, Emperial Young, is now on her fourth day of a hunger strike.
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They also denied that Chavez was disciplined for taking part in a hunger strike.
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A "dry" hunger strike means she will also refuse water as well as food.
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Is it true that you hold a record for the world's longest hunger strike?
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Last year, about 35 detainees began a hunger strike over conditions at the facility.
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All have said they will continue their hunger strike, even if it means death.
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For people in immigration detention, participation in a hunger strike is a last resort.
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She was even forcibly fed in jail after she went on a hunger strike.
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In addition to the 11 people on a hunger strike in the El Paso region, four other detainees at facilities around the country are also on a hunger strike -- one each in Miami, Phoenix, San Diego, and San Francisco, according to ICE.
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In protest, she went on a three-day hunger strike in September to no avail.
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But whether there's a hunger strike or not is a much trickier question to answer.
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Barely two weeks into the nuns' hunger strike Bishop Franco was relieved of his post.
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The election has also focused attention on a hunger strike by HDP lawmaker Leyla Guven.
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We were discussing the Palestinian prisoners who had begun a hunger strike two weeks ago.
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He drew international attention by staging a lengthy hunger strike and frequently clashing with guards.
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February 2013: More than 100 detainees go on hunger strike, with many being force-fed.
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Manning launched a hunger strike in September, demanding access to treatment for her gender dysphoria.
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She twice attempted suicide and went on a five-day hunger strike, demanding transgender treatments.
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Was there a point during your hunger strike when you thought you couldn't go on?
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Ms. Zahan tried to escape and even went on a hunger strike against the marriage.
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They went on a hunger strike, demanding only that their families be told their whereabouts.
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For example, they were denied phone privileges unless Alyokhina agreed to cease a hunger strike.
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Fear of drug cartels Perez said the hunger strike is more than a symbolic gesture.
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He went on a hunger strike to protest his incarceration and was hospitalized in August.
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In November 2012, Ocalan made a similar call to end a hunger strike by prisoners.
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After he went on a hunger strike, Mr. Anderson was hospitalized for a psychiatric assessment.
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Sources close to Barghouti outright deny he has any ulterior motives with the hunger strike, however.
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"There is no need for a hunger strike if Marwan was thinking of himself," Qassam said.
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He is now severely malnourished from having been on a hunger strike for almost nine years.
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Davis added that as of Monday 12 ICE detainees had been on hunger strike since Friday.
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In 2006, 10 janitors employed by the University of Miami went on a monthlong hunger strike.
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However, he said, officials broke that promise, which prompted additional prisoners to resume the hunger strike.
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It's unclear if this recent movement will be enough for Sis to end his hunger strike.
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Now at 92 days without food, Qiq's hunger strike is among the longest in the world.
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What inspired you to take this action and do this hunger strike for the Dream Act?
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not comment on whether a hunger strike was taking place.
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WATCH: Politics of Food – Guantanamo Bay Kitchen VICE: Why did you go on your hunger strike?
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He took part in an August hunger strike that left him gravely ill, the Post reported.
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Through a spokesperson, ICE denied any wrongdoing and didn't acknowledge a hunger strike was even occurring.
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He was among several lawmakers who went on a hunger strike demanding parliamentary elections in 2015.
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In 2014 Andiola and Garcia were arrested together during a hunger strike outside ICE's field office.
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Perez went on a hunger strike earlier this year, saying he feared deportation would mean death.
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The hunger strike is another step in his campaign to position himself as Mr. Abbas's successor.
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So he started a hunger strike Wednesday, not long after his latest setback in federal court.
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"I carried out my hunger strike in front of the mayoral office in Ginowan," Motoyama said.
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Before being transported to hospital by ambulance, Guven said the hunger strike had achieved its goal.
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Ms. Kaur said those who went on hunger strike were placed in solitary confinement as punishment.
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In the meantime, detainees at the facility went on a hunger strike to protest the quarantine.
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Activists pressured lawmakers to pass the bill by staging a hunger strike from June 12 to 19.
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One young protester, So Sau-chung, began a hunger strike at the Star Ferry Pier in Central.
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There were conflicting reports from RAICES and ICE about whether a hunger strike had occurred on Aug.
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He reportedly waged a hunger strike two months before the start of his trial, losing 40 lbs.
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Madrid said the group was starting a three-day hunger strike to draw attention to the standoff.
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"I will go on a hunger strike from today and again show all the unbelievers," she said.
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She was attacked by angry mobs and force-fed in prison after going on a hunger strike.
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At least 18 of the 53 were known to be on the hunger strike, her office said.
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She has repeatedly gone on hunger strike, and says she is the victim of a show trial.
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Of those, 834 continued the hunger strike the entire 40 days, according to the Israel Prison Service.
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Six women in a jail in the eastern province of Elazig went on hunger strike on Nov.
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It was not immediately clear how many fathers have joined the hunger strike, which began on Wednesday.
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In May, 2015, Salgado went on a hunger strike, restricting herself to water, lime juice, and honey.
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After an intense social media campaign, the restrictions were eased and Ms. Mohammadi halted her hunger strike.
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Elizabeth Warren and more big names in a hunger strike protesting President Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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He also once went on a 79-day hunger strike to raise awareness about about biomass fuels.
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Assa claims that Bagui has been on hunger strike at Fleury-Mérogis prison to protest his imprisonment.
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The month after Deniz-Sahagun's death, inmates at Eloy began a hunger strike to demand an explanation.
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People on hunger strike are among "nearly 150,000 people arbitrary dismissed" since the coup attempt, she said.
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This follows an ongoing hunger strike at the jail in Essex County, which was first announced Tuesday.
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In 1978, still facing a lack of work, El Pana responded by going on a hunger strike.
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The Maze Virus, as it's known, may be named for the prison of Bobby Sands's hunger strike.
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Then he pulled a shirt over his face and recorded a video calling for a hunger strike.
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Oleg Sentsov, a Ukranian anti-Putin filmmaker, has been on a hunger strike for over 100 days.
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His death drew broad international criticism of the British government for its handling of the hunger strike.
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The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), says 250 inmates and politicians have joined the hunger strike.
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"I am going on hunger strike knowing full well that I may not survive it," he wrote.
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The Lebanese man sentenced to 10 years for spying, Nizar Zakka, started a hunger strike on Dec.
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He has also at times carried out a hunger strike in Uruguay to protest being kept there.
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In September 2015, detainees staging a hunger strike were shot with rubber bullets, according to the report.
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"I declare a hunger strike until my right to work in Ukraine is returned to me," he said.
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Disappointment that the ruling made little immediate difference to her circumstances prompted Salgado to go on hunger strike.
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Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband said he would stage a hunger strike outside the Iranian Embassy in London from Saturday.
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He&aposs been on a hunger strike demanding the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners held by Russia.
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It was not immediately clear whether the latest move would lead to an end of the hunger strike.
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Another had gone on a hunger strike when her parents told her she could no longer attend classes.
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He told Reuters that he began his hunger strike last week to raise awareness of his father's plight.
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He's on day four of his hunger strike and he tells VICE he's committed for the long run.
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More than 1,000 imprisoned Palestinians began the hunger strike in mid-April, although some have since dropped out.
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His mother wrote in a separate post over the weekend that she was aware of the hunger strike.
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More prisoners may join the hunger strike, which was planned to coincide with Palestinian Prisoners' Day, Qaraqe said.
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While they were held in Rome, Gudrun went on a hunger strike until she grew weak and feverish.
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During that time, he also went on a hunger strike to protest his conditions, losing over 25 pounds.
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Hernandez appeared to have been put in solitary confinement as punishment for the hunger strike, according to BuzzFeed.
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The hunger strike at the cathedral ended within a day, but at San Miguel the situation grew dire.
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A protest can occur in many ways, such as a sit-in, march, rally, boycott, hunger strike, etc.
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The AASU has announced a mass hunger strike in Guwahati Friday and have asked people to join them.
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But she said she had received news through his cellmate's family that Namazi had begun a hunger strike.
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As Obama began his second term, inmates at Guantánamo launched another hunger strike, the largest one since 2005.
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Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, began the hunger strike roughly two weeks ago.
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Her husband said he, too, would stage a hunger strike from Saturday: outside the Iranian Embassy in London.
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Undergraduate student Lindsay Wrobel took a several-day hunger strike that she ended once Jaeger was put on leave.
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In a Catholic area the subject might be Bobby Sands, a republican who died on hunger strike in 1981.
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Colic, reflux or a poor latch can cause an otherwise healthy infant to go on a temporary hunger strike.
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Hundreds of other Kurdish inmates went on hunger strike in late 2018 to demand an end to his isolation.
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His wife, local prison rights organizer Victoria Castillo, joined him on a hunger strike for 10 days in solidarity.
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But it's worth noting two things: (1) He tries to have a hunger strike to protest the Lodges' prison.
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A father of six who said he was barely given enough to feed two children went on hunger strike.
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Ince also documented the 300-day hunger strike of two teachers who lost their jobs during the mass layoffs.
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Chelsea Manning is protesting her treatment in prison by going on hunger strike, she has announced in a statement .
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"A lot of the people inside have been facing a lot of repression for the hunger strike," she said.
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She began a hunger strike immediately after her arrest, and her health situation has dramatically deteriorated in recent days.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails ended their hunger strike Saturday after 40 days, officials said.
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Pakistanis—who, curiously, have been arriving in greater numbers since the deal kicked in—have begun a hunger strike.
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The migrants on hunger strike, wearing red baseball hats, told Reuters they had traveled by train and on foot.
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In April, Yale students began a hunger strike in an effort to force the school to the bargaining table.
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Lasting 41 days, the hunger strike brought him prominence in the party's ranks and on the national political scene.
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Manning ended her hunger strike this week after the military agreed to allow her to have gender reassignment surgery.
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Desperate, the remaining 750 residents at Holot, where the men had been transferred from, embarked on a hunger strike.
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Maliwal has been on a hunger strike since April 13 to push for stricter laws for rape in India.
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A group of 24 migrants who were protesting their detainment in the U.S. ended their hunger strike on Sunday.
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Activists have launched a hunger strike to protest the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy at the southern border.
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It was day 12 of his hunger strike, and a brown-striped polo hung loosely on his slim frame.
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Last month, a group of activists went on a hunger strike to call for Suhr's termination, according to NPR.
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He went on a hunger strike over the summer and was kept alive for 145 days by medical intervention.
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In 2014, officials said more than 30 were killed in a mass poisoning of prisoners on a hunger strike.
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Savchenko sang the Ukrainian anthem over the judge reading out her sentence, and subsequently went on a hunger strike.
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Soon afterward the regime closed her party's offices, and she joined another hunger strike, refusing food for 33 days.
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Two of them — Nuriye Gulmen, an academic, and Semih Ozakca, a schoolteacher — began a hunger strike on March 9.
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In 1986, Mr. Liteky mounted a debilitating 19863-day hunger strike near the Capitol against American involvement in Nicaragua.
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Dozens of Hindu housewives and grandmothers joined in, carrying out a hunger strike, saying they were ready to die.
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She declared her first hunger strike in 2010, after her family was forbidden to visit or make phone calls.
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Because of an editing error, an article on Friday about a hunger strike in Nicaragua included an erroneous byline.
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They have since started eating again but are threatening an open-ended hunger strike if conditions are not improved.
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Her family said she had ended the hunger strike a few days later after she was granted medical treatment.
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Ukraine's dolphin army is so loyal, it went on a hunger strike when it was captured by Russian forces.
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She told People magazine that it is a "privilege and not a sacrifice" to take part in the hunger strike.
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Her family said she ended the hunger strike a few days later following a decision to grant her medical treatment.
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In April, it was reported that two detainees at Lumpkin had gone on hunger strike to protest their prolonged detention.
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In September 2016, she launched a hunger strike, demanding access to gender reassignment surgery; the military complied five days later.
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Manning began a hunger strike on September 9 to demand treatment and access to medically prescribed recommendations for her condition.
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For more than a year now, women in another facility in Pennsylvania have held a hunger strike to protest conditions.
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He also says hunger strike-related issues have cost the defense time it would&aposve spent preparing for the trial.
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Koufodinas started a hunger strike on May 30 because authorities refused to give him a leave of absence from jail.
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He declared a hunger strike in May that has been an ongoing political backdrop to Putin's otherwise triumphant World Cup.
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After a few weeks of no action from authorities, the girls and other protestors decided to go on hunger strike.
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She later launched a hunger strike in pursuit of treatment, and after four days, the military agreed to her demands.
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Detainees would not have to hunger strike in the first place if they received timely, fair trials and humane treatment.
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He began his hunger strike at al-Hair prison in Riyadh the following day, the statement added, citing Saudi activists.
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Colonel Schaefer showed defiance early on, beginning a hunger strike on Thanksgiving to protest deprivations, including the lack of mail.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped force-feeding detainees who are on a hunger strike, an ICE spokesperson confirmed Friday.
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Farinas began a hunger strike earlier this month calling, for Raul Castro's government to end torture and human rights abuses.
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A man, who is on an indefinite hunger strike, lay in front of the stage where the protesting nuns sat.
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In June, he started a hunger strike against corruption, and 20023,000 of his followers rallied in his support in Delhi.
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Jeremy Hunt, Britain's foreign secretary, met with Mr. Ratcliffe on Saturday when his hunger strike began to offer his support.
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In August, after a protracted hunger strike in a maternity hospital, a baby boy was delivered prematurely through cesarean section.
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Mr. Sentsov began his hunger strike in May to demand the release of Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russian jails.
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She abandoned a hunger strike last month after appeals from the mother of a detained protester that she start eating.
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In July Cliff Kendall, a 38-year-old doctor, completed a 15-day hunger strike in support of the movement.
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Starting Sunday, many of the more than 5,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons declared that they were on a hunger strike.
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U.S. citizen Mustafa Kassem died in Egyptian prison, where he has been since 2013, after going on a hunger strike.
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In September, journalist Afgan Mukhtarli with Type 221 diabetes went on a hunger strike in protest of Azerbaijan prison conditions.
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Iranian news accounts quoted the Tehran prosecutor, Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, as saying that Mr. Sadeghi had ended his hunger strike.
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Manning began the hunger strike at Fort Leavenworth military prison on Friday, vowing to continue until she received better treatment.
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In March 2014, advocates said about 1,200 detainees were engaging in a hunger strike to protest against poor working conditions.
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"To do a hunger strike is a last resort for inmates and political prisoners, who are arrested at midnight, interrogated in unknown jails, under horrible pressures, while their families witnessing the ordeals from afar, what can they do but go on hunger strike?" said the lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was imprisoned herself for several years.
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Manning has had to go on hunger strike for medical care and access to gender dysphoria medication, Manning's lawyer told CNN.
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Earlier in the day, the group also announced a hunger strike, said Vladimir Sjekloca, a manager of Belgrade's Asylum Info Centre.
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The "Break Bread Not Families" hunger strike is being organized by activist groups including the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights nonprofit.
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Eight of those on hunger strike domestically and abroad have committed suicide to draw attention to the cause, the HDP said.
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The next day, Abdel Fattah announced on social media she would begin a hunger strike to protest abuse while in custody.
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She has repeatedly gone on hunger strike, and says she is the victim of a show trial aimed at humiliating Ukraine.
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On May 14th Mr Sentsov started a hunger strike demanding the release of all 64 Ukrainian political prisoners from Russian jails.
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During the protests, Liu played an active role in starting a hunger strike and negotiating a peaceful retreat from the square.
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In 1993, she began a seven-day hunger strike against political corruption that culminated in a visit from the prime minister.
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The student protests gained momentum when Jonathan Butler, a graduate student, staged a hunger strike to force Mr Wolfe to resign.
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Nine other men also perished during the same hunger strike, with the last death occurring after 73 days of refusing food.
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He was deported back to Uruguay and went on a hunger strike for 68 days in Montevideo, demanding to be resettled.
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In the midst of a 25-day hunger strike in 1968, Chavez waited to eat until Kennedy was by his side.
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Polonsky, in protest, declared the hunger strike and took up round-the-clock residence in a tent on the construction site.
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In May, he began a hunger strike to call for the release of 64 other Ukrainian political prisoners held by Russia.
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In fact, twenty-two women being held with their families in the Berks Detention Center launched a hunger strike on Aug.
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Mr. Breivik has been complaining about his confinement since 2012 and at one point threatened to go on a hunger strike.
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Shahini went on a hunger strike for a month recently and his health situation had been deteriorating, the HRANA report said.
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By September 2628, one of the men on the hunger strike — Tariq Ba Odah — has dropped to weigh just 28503 pounds.
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A 489-day hunger strike, an international campaign and pressure from Washington helped me regain my freedom on May 30, 2015.
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No one decides to not go to work and start a hunger strike after listening to the radio in the morning.
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On May 14, he went on a hunger strike to demand the release of about 70 Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia.
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"The theory is that a detainee won't want to reach that point and so will abandon his hunger strike," he said.
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When some detainees began a hunger strike during Obama's second term, Kelly feared that the issue was being framed too sympathetically.
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Should hunger strike, walk down the alley to its sibling hipster El Rey Burrito Lounge for a "mighty" black bean ($10.25).
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Students complaining of official inaction in the face of racial bigotry joined forces with a graduate student on a hunger strike.
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But university administrators never formally recognized the union, despite a high-profile hunger strike and a protest march on commencement morning.
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In the detention cell crowded with inmates, Ms. Li staged a hunger strike, drinking only bottles of sweetened tea, she said.
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Mr. Ghaemi speculated that the hunger strike had played an important role in the decision to release Mr. Shahini on bail.
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A few years later, I was again in an Israeli prison, leading a hunger strike, when my first son was born.
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In September, journalist Afgan Mukhtarli, who has Type-2 diabetes, went on a hunger strike in protest of Azerbaijan prison conditions.
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A protester bands their mouth during a hunger strike as they continue their anti-government demonstrations in Baghdad on Dec. 23.
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Twelve Syrian Kurds living in Lesbos's Moria camp for months began a hunger strike on Friday, the Athens News Agency reported.
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"CERI confirms the hunger strike begun by Fariba Adelkhah and her co-detainee Kylie Moore-Gilbert," the institute said on Wednesday.
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In the 1982 movie, Kingsley portrayed the activist during his work in South Africa and up until his famous hunger strike.
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Officials closely monitor the food and water intake of detainees who have been identified as being on hunger strike, they said.
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Once in Serbia, Dayfi felt persecuted and went on a hunger strike in hopes of being sent to an Arab country.
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RINK, a group supporting detainees at the center, told Reuters the Nigerian had been on hunger strike to protest his lengthy detention.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is arrested while staging a protest in downtown Johannesburg calling for the release of detainees on a hunger strike.
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When the successful Palestinian hunger strike of 22012 began, even many of those in support did not expect the prisoners to win.
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But to protest a Texas House bill targeting sanctuary cities, Texas State Representative Victoria Neave is trying something different: a hunger strike.
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After the court ordered her release, Sharmila resumed her hunger strike, according to her lawyer, and she was placed back into custody.
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A blockade of roads to limit supplies might simply build support for these brigands as their occupation turns into a hunger strike.
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" Suarez confirmed Caro had carried out a hunger strike but said he stopped after four days because he "saw it was absurd.
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Saakashvili, who launched a hunger strike to protest against his detention, sang the Ukrainian national anthem at the beginning of the hearing.
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She was approved to undergo gender transition surgery last year while behind bars -- after attempting suicide and going on a hunger strike.
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In exchange for ending the hunger strike, prisoners will be offered a second family visit per month, the Israel Prison Service said.
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The Angola 15 garnered international attention in October when they went on a hunger strike, with Beirão holding out for 36 days.
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The six Iranians, who are also on hunger strike, are demanding the camp be preserved and those living in it granted asylum.
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He is being held at a prison in northeastern province of Chaiyaphum province and has been on a hunger strike since Aug.
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After his arrest in August that year, Mr. Yang also held a hunger strike, one of his lawyers said at the time.
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Siamak Namazi called his mother, Effie Namazi, earlier in the day and told her that "his hunger strike is broken," she wrote.
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ICE officials denied that there was a hunger strike, characterizing the protest as a brief sit-in by fewer than 50 men.
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For their health and safety, I.C.E. closely monitors the food and water intake of those identified as being on a hunger strike.
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Maliwal has vowed to maintain her hunger strike until the government introduces measures to ensure all accused attackers are brought to justice.
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On several occasions, Mr. Abdulmutallab has engaged in a hunger strike to protest, the complaint said, but ceased after being force-fed.
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On Campus Last fall, students at two of the nation's premier historically black colleges, Spelman and Morehouse, went on a hunger strike.
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"I know I may be able to survive for only a few weeks when I go on hunger strike," he told us.
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For immigrants languishing behind bars, a hunger strike is often the sole remaining means of protest against a dehumanizing and unjust system.
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He continued his hunger strike for one week until he was allowed access to us, his family, 51 days after his arrest.
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Mustafa Kassem died of heart failure in the midst of a hunger strike after more than six years in an Egyptian prison.
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"I hope her demand will be met and her hunger strike will be finished before it does damage to her," Temizkan said.
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" As the hunger strike at the church began, one of the Ortega children, Juan Carlos Ortega, declared, "We condemn this coup plan.
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The police cut off water and electricity supplies to the church in the city of Masaya soon after the hunger strike began.
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Mr. Barghouti would like his audience to believe that the hunger strike is a reaction to the mistreatment of prisoners like him.
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After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going on a hunger strike.
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He says his group is planning to go on a hunger strike to protest physical intimidation and arbitrary arrests by Cuban authorities.
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Reports surfaced December 22018 that Esraa Abdel Fattah of banned website Tahrir News had been hospitalized in connection with her hunger strike.
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A monthlong hunger strike in Palestine, known as the Dignity Strike, continues as artists help illuminate the struggle Palestinians continue to endure.
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At the Berks Detention Center in Pennsylvania last summer, a group of mothers went on hunger strike to protest their seemingly infinite detention.
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The migrants appeared to have started a hunger strike on Friday, Davide Faraone, a lawmaker in the opposition Democratic Party, said on Twitter.
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Ratcliffe said his wife was returned to prison on Saturday after being discharged from hospital, following a hunger strike, according to the BBC.
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Defying their church, they had mounted a hunger strike near the high court in Kochi, a city in the southern state of Kerala.
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Miller said around nine of the 16 fathers were part of the group who had planned to go on a hunger strike previously.
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According to two of the women, some inmates began a hunger strike this week, demanding an end to the phone and email limitations.
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After a hunger strike, Mr Shestun was transferred to a hospital facility in another prison, Matrosskaya Tishina—"Sailors' silence"—then back to Lefortovo.
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Ahead of the verdict, Savchenko said she would go on a hunger strike unless she is extradited to Ukraine, according to her lawyers.
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"14 July" (2017), for example, directed by Haşim Aydemir, is a stirring but edifying retelling of a 1980 hunger strike by Kurdish prisoners.
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"We are greatly concerned that his lengthy hunger strike would result in the deterioration of his health," Amnesty International said in a statement.
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Though he admits that staging this hunger strike could "very well be political suicide," Lindo believes that all other avenues have been exhausted.
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The 21 who remain in jail have been on hunger strike for more than a month to protest their sentences, rights groups said.
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The news website said Jaber Albakr had been under round-the-clock surveillance due to an acute risk of suicide and hunger strike.
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Addressing workers on hunger strike over the suspected murder of their colleagues, Hussain incited supporters to storm the office of a television channel.
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Frustrated, the sisters decided to start a hunger strike -- a decision inspired by trip to India and a visit to Mahatma Ghandi's house.
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"A hunger strike is one of the most effective ways of protesting in our situation," one of the protesters, Prince Edwards, told us.
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When an elder goes on a hunger strike in protest and dies, it sparks an underground uprising to restore power to the oppressed.
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Myself and colleagues were convinced that an extreme decision like a hunger strike until death was the only way to highlight these abuses.
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This made her husband furious, and he went on a hunger strike for two months, which made his parents blame her even more.
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Op-Ed Contributor Billy Gauthier, an Inuk artist who lives in Labrador on Canada's remote northeastern coast, began his hunger strike on Oct.
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The physician indicated in federal filings that they are concerned the detainee could suffer serious health problems due to the ongoing hunger strike.
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Manning said in her statement that she was prepared mentally and emotionally to endure an indefinite hunger strike, even if it proved fatal.
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ICE officials denied on Thursday a report that migrant fathers are protesting conditions in immigrant detention centers by going on a hunger strike.
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But the detainee, Mohamed Soltan, was released only after he carried out a 16-month hunger strike, drawing international attention to his imprisonment.
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"General Miguel Rodriguez Torres has been on hunger strike since Monday, according to DGCIM's official report," opposition legislator Adriana Pichardo wrote on Twitter.
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Finally, released detainees gave us some information: our father had gone on a hunger strike in protest of his illegal and arbitrary detention.
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Sadeghi began a hunger strike shortly after his wife was arrested over the contents of an unpublished short story found in her home.
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Washington (CNN)Immigration authorities are force-feeding and hydrating six detainees in Texas, after 11 migrants in federal custody declared a hunger strike.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An American businessman jailed in Iran since October has broken his hunger strike, his mother wrote on social media on Monday.
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Roger Chambi, an Aymara activist, points out to a visitor the building housing Radio San Gabriel, where insurgent leaders held a hunger strike.
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On June 3003, two days before the military crushed the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Mr. Liu and three friends began a hunger strike.
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Mr. Merlo's mother, Diana Lacayo, was among nine women who went on a hunger strike last month to demand their loved ones' freedom.
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Sotoudeh went on a hunger strike for 49 days after authorities refused to allow her 12-year-old daughter to leave the country.
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In 2015, he went on hunger strike for two weeks as part of a campaign to force the government to hold parliamentary elections.
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"Should there be any unforeseen events, like death in a hunger strike, that could backfire and embolden the opposition," added ICG analyst Breda.
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But both sides had agreed that the underlying cause of the hunger strike was mounting despair that the detainees would ever go home.
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Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh ended a nearly 50-day hunger strike in 2012 after Iranian officials lifted a travel ban on her daughter.
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Always slight, Mr. Tri Quang said his weight fell from 114 to 96 pounds during his hunger strike, which lasted about two weeks.
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Mr. Zakka's lawyer in the United States, Jason Poblete, said his client had been on a hunger strike for the past three weeks.
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Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband Richard started a hunger strike outside the Iranian Embassy in London last week to draw attention to his wife's plight.
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Since the mid-1970s, when he had helped to end a hunger strike by political prisoners, he had won a reputation as a peacemaker.
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Parliamentary deputy Oleh Berezyuk, the Samopomich faction leader in parliament, launched his hunger strike on the steps of the presidential administration building in Kiev.
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Elizabeth Warren and nearly 50 members of her family in committing to a 24-hour hunger strike protesting President Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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"My father started his hunger strike today after the morning prayers," Karroubi's son, Mohammad Taghi Karroubi, who lives in Britain, told Reuters by telephone.
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Subsequent labor activists and rank-and-file workers have utilized it, in the more secularized model of the hunger strike, for their own ends.
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The union said Ramalho will continue his hunger strike outside the presidential palace in Lisbon until the government agrees to negotiate on union demands.
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Last year, Manning, who is transgender, went on a hunger strike and attempted suicide twice in response to her treatment at Leavenworth military prison.
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She celebrated Nyurka, the prison cat, who brought her an especially plump mouse when she was on hunger strike, meaning her to eat it.
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Justice began the hunger strike after he was transferred from Holman Correctional Facility, where he spent nearly three years in solitary confinement, Glasgow said.
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In February, more than 40 detainees launched a hunger strike at the Osaka center to protest against what they said was poor medical care.
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They declared a huelga de piernas cruzadas – or a crossed leg strike – and were soon joined by sympathetic men, who initiated a hunger strike.
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The band's only studio album, Temple of the Dog, might be best remembered for "Hunger Strike," where Cornell duetted with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.
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He was deported back to Uruguay in late August and was on a hunger strike for 68 days in Montevideo, demanding to be resettled.
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Chelsea Manning has launched a hunger strike seeking better medical treatment for her gender dysphoria, according to a statement released today by her representatives.
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It was the morning after the hunger strike began, and I had joined a dozen Israeli and Eritrean activists on a visit to Holot.
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When a hunger strike swept the prison in 2013, they did not participate, he said, although he had sometimes participated in earlier such protests.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is denying a report that migrant fathers have gone on a hunger strike over conditions in immigrant detention centers.
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BOBBY SANDS: 66 DAYS Sands was 27 in 303, when he died in Maze Prison in Northern Ireland after a 66-day hunger strike.
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He alleges he was punched in the eye by a guard and placed into solitary confinement for participating in a hunger strike in February.
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Mexico City's prisons department did not immediately respond to a request for comment, although Gomez Leyva reported it was aware of Duarte's hunger strike.
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In a separate letter to the judge, which was also filed publicly on Friday, Mr. Rahimi said he began a hunger strike on Dec.
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The writer, an activist and professor, was part of a hunger strike in 1970 to protest prison conditions when she herself was in prison.
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The first is #dignitystrike, a phrase that draws on the principle underlying the tactic of hunger strike and indeed the Palestinian freedom struggle itself.
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Related: Saudi Arabia's Most Famous Blogger Is Now On a Hunger Strike in Prison Saudi Arabia beheaded its 158th person just this past Tuesday.
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The "SaveTheOA" movement immediately launched a series of petitions, flash mobs, and at least one hunger strike, but nothing has changed Netflix's mind, apparently.
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LENS The French photojournalist Yan Morvan covered Northern Ireland in 1981 when Bobby Sands, a member of the I.R.A., died of a hunger strike.
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He was famous for fiery speeches and helped start a hunger strike days before the protest in Tiananmen Square was crushed by the military.
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Nisa, who has been on hunger strike for two weeks, said she will not eat until the national register and the CAA are abolished.
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"This is a bittersweet joy for us," Guven's daughter, Sabiha Temizkan, told Reuters, saying her mother would continue her hunger strike despite her release.
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Sadeghi finally ended his hunger strike after judicial authorities made the tiny concession of granting his wife temporary release from her pre-trial detention.
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For 40 days, 22 political prisoners staged a hunger strike in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, 30 miles west of the Iranian capital of Tehran.
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Mr. Ratcliffe and his wife staged a joint hunger strike this summer shortly after their daughter's fifth birthday to draw attention to their case.
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Soltan said that Desouky's pending release is connected to Mustafa Kassem, an American citizen who recently died in custody after a lengthy hunger strike.
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"He told me he was going to participate in a hunger strike because of the abuse he endured in detention," Gutierrez told BuzzFeed News.
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Some 1,000 Palestinian prisoners have decided to take part in this hunger strike, which begins today, the day we observe here as Prisoners' Day.
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Her case came to international attention in 2012 when she embarked on a 50-day hunger strike against a travel ban on her daughter.
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The official said the detainees to be transferred include Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni man who has been on a long-term hunger strike.
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Last week, a group of mothers of political prisoners began a hunger strike in a church in the city of Masaya, close to Managua.
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Parishioners had gathered for Mass, to be followed by a pilgrimage, in support of mothers in Masaya's cathedral who are on a hunger strike.
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Some of the students involved in the protests, particularly football players and Butler, who initiated the hunger strike, never responded to repeated interview requests.
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Ahmad Kiarostami, a friend of Namazi, said he worried that the hunger strike indicated Namazi had been driven to extreme measures by his detention.
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One woman said she'd come from Chicago, where she'd participated in a 34-day hunger strike against the conditions of her son's public school.
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At the time of the interview, he was being kept in Attica's medical ward because, prison officials said, he was on a hunger strike.
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Prison officials have suggested Mr. Sweat is on the hunger strike to protest his move to Attica and dismissed his allegations about the threats.
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But he attacked fellow jail inmates, according to the psychologist's report, and went on a hunger strike, saying he thought he was being poisoned.
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" He added, apparently referring to the detainees' behavior during their hunger strike, "Detainee compliance is not an option, and there has to be accountability.
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Meanwhile, seven DACA beneficiaries from Mexico, Argentina and Colombia were in the fourth day of a hunger strike to draw attention to the issue.
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Wrobel ended her hunger strike on September 19, documenting its conclusion in a Snapchat story that opened with a shot of a half moon cookie.
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But according to the Texas advocacy and legal services group RAICES, which announced the protest, what's going on is much more serious: a hunger strike.
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Another 27 foreigners are on hunger strike at a detention center in Ushiku, northeast of Tokyo, said a separate group supporting detainees at that facility.
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The young women have purportedly become sick after a hunger strike demanding they be returned home, but Pyongyang hasn't disclosed how it acquired such reports.
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"If a person has declared a hunger strike, you have to isolate them in administrative segregation and monitor them on a medical basis," Vasquez said.
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That's why Castillo, 33, participated in a hunger strike on September 9 with at least 150 other inmates at two corrections facilities in Merced County.
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However, the court also ordered her release pending an appeal and she has vowed to continue her hunger strike until she gets her job back.
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The family of Siamak Namazi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen detained since October, said on Saturday they had heard he had begun a hunger strike.
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Elizabeth Warren and nearly 50 members of her family in committing to a 24-hour hunger strike to protest President Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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Huebner said Albakr's suicidal tendencies had been well documented, adding that his client decided to go on hunger strike directly after his arrest on Monday.
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Karroubi abandoned a hunger strike last Thursday after authorities withdrew security agents from his home where he has been held since 2011, his website said.
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The prisoner, Marwan Barghouti, is the leader of a mass hunger strike of incarcerated Palestinians, who claim Israel has been denying their basic human rights.
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In 2013, when nearly 93 detainees were conducting a hunger strike, the military raided the prison and seized art and legal documents from the cells.
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Lieutenant Savchenko vigorously denied the charges and, at one point, went on a hunger strike to protest the trial, which she dismissed as a farce.
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After 26 days on hunger strike, the girls and a number of activists decided to occupy the offices of Syriza, Greece's current ruling political party.
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She was hospitalized after a reported suicide attempt in July, and this month went on a hunger strike to seek treatment for her gender dysphoria.
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A local political activist, who was running for mayor but lost, went on a hunger strike after what he claimed was a totally rigged election.
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Jerusalem (CNN)More than a thousand Palestinians in Israeli prisons launched a hunger strike Monday, demanding better living and medical conditions for approximately 6,500 prisoners.
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Despite recurrent infighting between Palestinian factions, prisoners from multiple groups, including Hamas and the Palestinian People's Party, are also taking part in the hunger strike.
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But in 2013, amid a widespread hunger strike by detainees, he resumed his push for transfers — and renewed talks with the Saudis about the Yemenis.
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She also asked her lawyers to announce that she would go on a hunger strike 10 days after the verdict, when it comes into force.
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Ms. Sharmila, 44, began her hunger strike in November 2000, after soldiers killed 10 people in the village of Malom, near Imphal, in northeastern India.
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Ms. Quynh had been on hunger strike for periods during her imprisonment, was harassed by other inmates, and her health had deteriorated, Mr. Gemzell said.
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In California last week, activists circulated video that appeared to show an inmate turning down a burrito and saying he was on a hunger strike.
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His hunger strike lasted 16 months, during which he lost 160 pounds, and developed a pulmonary embolism in his right lung that nearly killed him.
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"He told me he was going to participate in a hunger strike because of the abuse he endured in detention," Gutierrez told the news outlet.
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Amrit Singh, who is the uncle of two of the detainees participating in the hunger strike, said the forced feeding is beginning to hurt them.
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Primary school teacher Semih Ozakca, 28, who has also been on hunger strike since losing his job in the crackdown, was acquitted on similar charges.
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A Cuban asylum-seeker decided to go on a hunger strike to protest abusive conditions of ICE custody, where he had spent nearly five months.
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He organized a hunger strike in the final days of the protest, and he helped students retreat from Tiananmen Square as the military moved in.
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In November, Ms. Lacayo and other women with jailed relatives approached Father Román and asked whether they could use his church for a hunger strike.
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Mr. Halawa's family says that he is on a hunger strike to protest his continued detention in a mass trial involving about 500 other people.
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"But I should say the hunger strike was the most painful experience which I have suffered in my life and I will never forget it."
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Thousands defied a government curfew Thursday to attend a meeting announced by the All Assam Students Union (AASU), which is also organizing the hunger strike.
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"I hope I won't have to start it (hunger strike)... We want to respect the country's laws, but respect should go both ways," he said.
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Since May 2015, Freedom for Immigrants has documented 1,396 people on hunger strike in 18 immigration detention facilities across the United States, Ms. Fialho said.
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Although the PRBs were established by executive order in 2011, the first hearing did not take place until 2013, immediately after a mass hunger strike.
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Several defeated candidates held protests, and some went on hunger strike outside the presidential palace, claiming that the country's leadership had meddled in the results.
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This month, Manning went on a hunger strike, agreeing to end it only when the Army said she would be allowed to receive gender transition surgery.
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Spence went on a hunger strike, saying she was prepared to die unless the then-Conservative government agreed to meet with her, which they later did.
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"This incident involved the above listed detainee believing to have been a snitch in the hunger strike incident which occurred in unit 6," one log reads.
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It said the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had failed to pressure prison officials into providing proper medical care for those on hunger strike.
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She has also fended off calls to make it easier to hold a referendum on independence—despite a recent hunger strike by some pro-independence types.
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Hunger strike She hasn't eaten in nearly 16 years, protesting the killing of civilians allegedly killed by Indian soldiers and sweeping powers given to the military.
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Castillo said inmates stopped their hunger strike after guards pledged to fulfill some of their other requests, including improving the quality of food and housing conditions.
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Amnesty International said misbehaving prisoners, including political prisoners on hunger strike, were still kept shackled in filth in kennels meant for dogs as recently as 2011.
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In all she spent four months in isolation, and many weeks on hunger strike, rather than wear a badge with her name and number on it.
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The church noted in a statement Monday about the hunger strike that it had taken steps to improve relationships between young people, their parents and leaders.
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At one point, Caro says he used a needle and thread to sew his lips shut for a five day hunger strike to protest at conditions.
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"I started [the hunger strike] after speaking to the government multiple times, without finding a solution," said Diyab, who is also known as Abu Wa'el Dhiab.
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Saakashvili has launched a hunger strike to protest against his detention, which will last until a court rules on whether to release him under house arrest.
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The Senate took the step after Sakharov went on a hunger strike in 1984 after the government prohibited his wife from traveling abroad for medical treatment.
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A Turkish official said Depardon "had not acted within the boundaries of journalistic principles," without elaborating further or commenting on the report of the hunger strike.
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Two Turkish teachers removed from their jobs in the government crackdown after last July's failed coup have been on hunger strike for more than two months.
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A Nova Scotia man has embarked on a hunger strike that he says will only end when the provincial government addresses his concerns about legalized cannabis.
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Other cellmates went on a hunger strike to protest poor medical care and exorbitant bonds that kept them detained only because of their inability to pay.
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The United Nations human rights office says America's force-feeding of detained immigrants who were on a hunger strike could violate the U.N. Convention Against Torture.
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In Texas, the immigration legal services group RAICES said that hundreds of immigrant fathers at the Karnes County Detention Center began a hunger strike August 2.
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And for four years, detainees there have engaged in one hunger strike after another, despite what they describe as ongoing retaliation by GEO Group and ICE.
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Later, Maya's older brother tells her that she's being self-hating and racist; meanwhile, Anna melts down with white guilt, embarking on a misguided hunger strike.
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After Amar took part in a hunger strike that nearly killed him, a federal judge gave ICE permission to give Amar intravenous fluids against his will.
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He began a hunger strike on May 2 to protest a decision by a Greek judicial council to turn down his latest request for prison leave.
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In 2005, Mr. Chebbi went on a hunger strike with eight representatives of other parties to protest government pressure on journalists, lawyers and human rights advocates.
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Mr. Hong roiled the campaign recently by saying that Ms. Park had fallen gravely ill, while Mr. Cho claimed that she was on a hunger strike.
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The protest, held in support of Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike that has now lasted 32 days, was one of several marred by violence recently.
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For immigrants languishing in detention, particularly in the South, a hunger strike is often the sole remaining means of protest against a dehumanizing and unjust system.
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Migrants who have gone on hunger strike in ICE detention say they've been harassed and punished for speaking out, often by being put in solitary confinement.
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The sentence was upheld this year, and al-Mahdaoui has gone on hunger strike and been denied medicine, nutritious food and access to a doctor. 7.
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Thierry Vittu, president of the team Cofidis, said cyclists were being "treated like plague victims," and Roberto Damiani, the team's sporting director, threatened a hunger strike.
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Their movement began last year as a sit-in and hunger strike in response to a horrific Taliban bombing at a wrestling match in Lashkar Gah.
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During her incarceration, which ended after President Barack Obama commuted most of her sentence in January 2017, she endured a hunger strike and a suicide attempt.
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In solidarity with his wife, Ratcliffe also held a hunger strike outside the Iranian Embassy in London after pitching a tent outside to protest her continued detention.
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Ms. Labadi, 32, has been on a hunger strike for the past month, only taking water, and has been treated in the hospital, according to Mr. Mahajna.
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"I know this action is extreme but it's also a reaction to an extreme attack by the government," Ramalho told reporters minutes before starting his hunger strike.
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She had been in judicial custody at a hospital, following 14 arrests on the grounds that she was illegally trying to kill herself through the hunger strike.
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More than 1,500 Palestinians in eight Israeli prisons launched a "Hunger Strike for Freedom and Dignity" on April 17 to demand better living conditions and medical treatment.
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It's a recreation of events in Oslo in 21986 when seven young Sámi people erected lavvus in front of the parliament building and staged a hunger strike.
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Caro said he carried out his hunger strike at another prison in the central state of Carabobo by sewing his lips together after nine months behind bars.
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The experience almost killed her: An 83-day hunger strike to protest her treatment was called off only after doctors warned her that she was near death.
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Caught in the system In May of this year, around 20 asylum seekers detained at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau staged a rare two-week hunger strike.
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Azeri officials dropped those charges in January after Huseynov went on a hunger strike and wrote to President Ilham Aliyev with a request for him to intervene.
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Chelsea Manning has ended the hunger strike she began September 9th after the US military agreed to let her receive gender reassignment surgery, according to her lawyers.
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He quickly became notorious for his loutish outbursts, going on a long hunger strike at one point and disrupting the proceedings with exceptional demands and long speeches.
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While in Venezuelan custody, he launched a hunger strike when he found out he was to be sent back to Uruguay, his lawyer told Agence France-Presse.
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Poroshenko had placed particular emphasis on the situation of Ukrainian citizens being held in Russia who are on hunger strike, the president's office said in a statement.
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Amnesty International has described her as a prisoner of conscience, and Human Rights Watch has cited her hunger strike in its repeated calls to repeal the law.
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RAICES told The Guardian earlier this week that more than 500 migrant fathers and children were planning on holding a hunger strike over conditions in the facility.
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A federal judge in San Diego approved Thursday a request from the Department of Homeland Security to force-feed and hydrate an immigrant detainee on hunger strike.
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When asked to explain the delays that prompted Cadence to go on hunger strike, Hirst stressed that creating and implementing the new housing policy would take time.
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"You feel like you are in a port of freedom but authoritarianism is approaching," said Mr. Ma, who said he participated in the hunger strike from afar.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On April 17, Palestinian prisoners launched a mass hunger strike against the dehumanizing and apartheid-style conditions inside Israel's detention facilities.
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The hunger strike reminds us of the life-or-death stakes (now visibly unfolding in real time, hour-by-hour) of the institutional politics of BDS movement.
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PERPIGNAN, FRANCE — Bobby Sands was 27 when he starved himself to death in a British prison in Northern Ireland after a 66-day hunger strike in 1981.
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"People expressed fear of contracting the COVID-19 virus and announced their intention to start a hunger strike if they were not released," the rights groups said.
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Why Yale Graduate Students Are on a Hunger Strike Their cause — a fight for decent, secure wages and comprehensive benefits — has implications for the entire labor market.
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According to Mohamed Soltan, the leader of The Freedom Initiative, Kassem was on a liquid-only hunger strike on and off before cutting off liquids last week.
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Kassem, who once begged for President Donald Trump's help, died Monday of heart failure during a hunger strike after more than six years in an Egyptian prison.
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Her health has deteriorated during a 79-day hunger strike to protest against the prison isolation of Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, those close to her say.
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Qadura Fares, the director of the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, a nongovernmental organization, said the prisoners would not end the hunger strike until their demands had been met.
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"He told me he was going to participate in a hunger strike because of the abuse he endured in detention," Hernandez's wife, Yarelis Gutierrez, told BuzzFeed News.
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Vinnik's lawyer called the decision unfair and appealed against it, calling the move "a death sentence", while the detained 40-year-old Russian launched a hunger strike.
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Two days after he was denied his release from ICE custody, the detention center segregated Hernandez-Diaz from the other inmates after he threatened a hunger strike.
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A second hunger strike was broken up when the Managua's cathedral was stormed by a group of people activists say are linked to the ruling Sandinista party.
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The fight is residual fallout from a major hunger strike protest that swept the Guantánamo cellblocks in 2013, shortly after President Barack Obama began his second term.
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Graduate student Jonathan Butler went on hunger strike a few days after someone painted a swastika made out of human feces in one of the dormitory bathrooms.
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BUDAPEST — Dozens of people seeking asylum in Hungary continued their hunger strike for a second day on Tuesday, demanding to be released from detention, the authorities said.
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Among the prisoners being transferred is Tariq Ba Odah, whose eight-year hunger strike led to intensified scrutiny of the treatment that Guantanamo's detainees are subject to.
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As Killip recognized, these words took on a different meaning after Sands and, soon after, nine other prisoners starved to death during a well-publicized hunger strike.
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During a hunger strike at an El Paso-based detention facility in January, ICE employees also began force-feeding nine detainees on a federal judge's orders. Rep.
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Others will be holding sit-ins, refusing to purchase anything from the prison, and participating in a hunger strike, prison strike organizer Amani Sawari told Democracy Now.
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The women who fought for the right to vote were harassed, attacked, imprisoned, and even force-fed when they went on a hunger strike, but they stood firm.
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Last Wednesday, Edwin Lindo ditched his suit for a puffy jacket and a beanie, took to the street, and announced that he was going on a hunger strike.
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The logs obtained by the Verge, which span the entirety of 2016, detail a variety of reasons relating to the hunger strike for placing detainees in solitary confinement.
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A third Guzman lawyer, Juan Luis Gonzalez Meza, set up camp outside the prison on Friday and announced a "hunger strike" to demand his client receive better treatment.
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Her decision to go on a four-day hunger strike came in a moment of desperation, as she sought comfort — and an idea for action — in her faith.
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But human rights activist Irom Sharmila -- the Iron lady of Manipur -- is ending her hunger strike today, because she feels protesting against the military that way wasn't working.
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The Ankara court said Gulmen was staging her hunger strike on the orders of the militant DHKP-C group, which is classed as a terrorist organization in Turkey.
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Manning has served seven years of her sentence; she has twice tried to commit suicide and went on a hunger strike in a bid for gender reassignment surgery.
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Among them will be Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni man who has been on a long-term hunger strike and has lost about half of his body weight.
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Last year, hundreds of inmates at the Pul-e-Charkhi went on a hunger strike to demand better conditions, but it remains overcrowded and lacking in basic infrastructure.
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The most prominent of those to be resettled over the next several weeks is Tariq Bah Odah, a 37-year-old Yemeni on a long-term hunger strike.
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Sobol, who is on hunger strike, was detained in a taxi as she tried to make her way to the protest and driven off in a police van.
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On Tuesday, Irom "Mengoubi" Chanu Sharmila of Manipur in northeast India ended her nearly 16-year hunger strike by licking a smudge of honey off of her hand.
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A group of migrants said Thursday that they planned to begin a hunger strike to push for the United States to speed up the processing of asylum claims.
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The letter was jointly signed by Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Narges Mohammadi, a fellow inmate and prominent rights activist who will also be taking part in the hunger strike.
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On Wednesday Ms. Alberto and 21 other women who call themselves "Madres Berks," or "Berks Mothers," restarted a hunger strike they had conducted for 16 days in August.
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Sometimes I think that Sanders and his supporters might consider a national hunger strike where every Sanders supporter waves a banner that proclaims: Sanders obliterates Trump by 15!
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Cadence's hunger strike comes amidst of series of disappointments for trans activists and their allies working to ensure that trans people can be housed where they feel safest.
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In late November, a group of migrant women from Central America stood outside the Enclave Caracol community center in Tijuana, and announced the beginning of a hunger strike.
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To the Editor: Leyla Guven, a member of Parliament from the Peoples' Democratic Party in Turkey, has been on an indefinite hunger strike for the last two months.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are force-feeding at least six detained migrants on a hunger strike to protest mistreatment, an ICE spokesperson confirmed to VICE News Thursday.
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In New Jersey, people detained by ICE have gone on hunger strike, demanding to be released rather than stare down a coronavirus outbreak they see as impending, inevitable.
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The couple's four-year appeal that the fiancée be allowed to join her husband-by-proxy was finally granted after the Sakharovs mounted a 17-day hunger strike.
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Kassem, who had been on a liquid-only hunger strike to protest his conviction, stopped taking liquids last Thursday, rights group Pretrial Rights International said in a statement.
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In a statement on Saturday, Mr. Barghouti confirmed the end of the hunger strike, timed to coincide with the beginning of Ramadan, the holy Muslim month of fasting.
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Officers at the facility told ICE that Hernandez had missed his "ninth consecutive meal and declared a hunger strike, citing his frustration with the immigration process" on Tuesday.
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The women on the hunger strike had come prepared with electrolyte drinks, and the priest shared the contents of the rectory pantry with those who were not striking.
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Yale graduate students led a hunger strike aimed at pressuring the school to negotiate with its newly formed union, which demanded — among other things — stricter sexual harassment laws.
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"We have neither the right nor the power to prevent someone from staging a hunger strike, and neither the right nor the power to intervene in court decisions."
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Peter Cole, 76, and Marko Stepanov, 67, began their hunger strike last month in a bid to highlight the gravity of the threat to humanity from climate change.
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It would take a hunger strike and a few more decades of targeted protests, along with some pressure from black faculty on the inside, to get a victory.
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PARIS, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Two foreign academics detained in Iran have begun a hunger strike in protest against their incarceration, according to a letter published by their supporters.
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Hundreds of immigrant detainees held in one of the largest detention centers in the U.S. are refusing meals as part of an organized hunger strike, activist groups say.
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"I made the case public to media after nine months when he was threatened with a death sentence by a prosecutor and went on a hunger strike," she added.
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Related: Saudi Arabia's Most Famous Blogger Is Now On a Hunger Strike in Prison Update: Samar Badawi has been released from her interrogation and is now free on bail.
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Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian film director jailed on fabricated terrorism charges, has been on hunger strike since May 14th, demanding the release of other Ukrainian political prisoners (see leader).
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Several days after the lawyers' visit on May 2, Ocalan issued a rare statement, in which he said those on hunger strike should not risk their health or lives.
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Holman inmate Kinetik Justice-Amun, whose given name is Robert Earl Council, began a hunger strike last Friday to protest what he considers mistreatment from prison officials, IWOC said.
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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.
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He and guest vocalist Eddie Vedder both sang on the hit single "Hunger Strike," and the band reunited for a tour last year in honor of their 25th anniversary.
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Martin led a hunger strike that led to the creation of Canada's End Immigration Detention Network, to which Chak donates all the royalties from the sale of this book.
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Mr. Álvarez was mayor of Chihuahua, the state capital, when he went on a hunger strike in 1986 to call attention to accusations of vote-rigging in local elections.
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An additional three immigrant detainees who are on a hunger strike in Texas are now being force-fed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to The Associated Press.
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An American businessman who has been held prisoner in Iran since October has ended his hunger strike of indeterminate length, his mother wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.
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Actors Levar Burton, Alec Baldwin and Martin Sheen are all participating in the hunger strike, as are 10 members of the House and a senator, according to the newspaper.
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He was released on bail following three days of detainment, an online petition spearheaded by artist Tania Bruguera that garnered nearly 500 signatures, and a three-day hunger strike.
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Maliwal began her hunger strike one day after publishing an open letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in which she called on rape to be punishable by death.
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When I went on a hunger strike, I had no food to give her, and I was ashamed to stand there without food as she came up to me.
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In one story, a girl goes on a hunger strike and out of empathy metamorphosizes into an eel; in another, a house becomes furiously jealous of a woman's lovers.
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The French photojournalist Yan Morvan was covering Northern Ireland during the hunger strike, photographing protests, skirmishes with British soldiers and the police, funerals, and the daily life of Catholics.
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He was jailed for 20 years on terrorism charges which he says are politically motivated, and has been on hunger strike since May to highlight Russia's human rights record.
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In September, her supporters issued a news release saying she was on a hunger strike because of an "overzealous administrative scrutiny" and lack of progress in getting more treatment.
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At a time when vastly more sounds — acoustic, electric, synthetic, processed — are available than at any time in history, such a narrow palette feels like a musical hunger strike.
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More than a thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israel staged a hunger strike to demand better conditions, led by Marwan Barghouti, who is often seen as a future Palestinian leader.
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Guven was joined on hunger strike by three more MPs, around 3,000 inmates in prisons across Turkey and activists abroad, according to her party, the third largest in parliament.
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The 28-year-old Army private, who was born male but revealed after being convicted of espionage that she identifies as a woman, announced the hunger strike on Friday.
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The man, who has yet to be named, began his protest-driven hunger strike on August 4, but it wasn't until this week that the incident was publicly exposed.
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Prisoners are always a resonant issue in Palestinian society—especially now, with about 1,000 of them on a mass hunger strike (organised by his chief rival) to demand better conditions.
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Earlier this month, a migrant held at LaSalle's Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe died by suicide after being put in solitary confinement as punishment for participating in a hunger strike.
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The logs also show that CoreCivic may have attempted to gather information on hunger strike organizers through cultivating detainee informants, who were later locked in solitary confinement themselves for protection.
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Despite the fact that she could have theoretically physically sustained her hunger strike indefinitely, ultimately no one knows Irom's mental and physical wellbeing and tolerance as well as she does.
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Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish journalist from Iran, said the men were not on a hunger strike and called on the Red Cross and Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) to provide help.
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BOGOTA, Colombia – A former rebel ideologue is suspending a 41-day hunger strike after Colombia&aposs special peace tribunal cast doubt on his extradition to the U.S. on drug charges.
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And for the girl who had gone on a hunger strike, she became the first girl in her village to graduate secondary school and is now attending college, studying linguistics.
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Sam Young of Houston said he started his hunger strike on Friday and is in Salt Lake City holding nightly chats with supporters across the street from the Mormon temple.
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Poroshenko said he had spoken to Savchenko by telephone and that she had agreed to end a hunger strike she has been observing on-and-off since late last year.
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Two of the leaders in custody, Josep Rull and Joaquim Forn, released a statement saying they would join the hunger strike started on Saturday by Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Turull.
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Earlier this month, hundreds of African asylum seekers in Holot started a hunger strike after seven men there were transferred to the nearby Saharonim Prison for refusing to be deported.
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"The economic situation of this country is collapse," Pablo Parada, a law student, who was participating last week in a hunger strike in front of the O.A.S. office in Caracas.
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The head of the Delhi Commission for Women, Swati Maliwal, began a hunger strike on April 13 to push for stricter laws for rape in India, including the death penalty.
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In 1970, he waged a hunger strike — subsisting for 19873 days on three cups of coffee and vitamins daily, and losing 60 pounds — that triggered a parliamentary debate over divorce.
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"Because none of his demands have been met, he cannot halt his hunger strike," Ms. Yang said, summarizing her brother's message, which she was not allowed to keep or copy.
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A court ordered their detention pending trial after ruling that their hunger strike protest was being conducted on behalf of an outlawed far-left group known as the DHKP-C.
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The teachers said their hunger strike aimed to highlight the plight of about 150,000 state employees - including academics, civil servants, judges and soldiers - suspended or sacked since the abortive coup.
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I started watching their movement then, when it was a hunger strike born out of pain and outrage at a suicide bombing that killed and wounded dozens in Helmand Province.
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Mr. Putin has spent the past month pretending to be oblivious to calls for the release of Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker currently on hunger strike in a Siberian jail.
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"The best nutrition experts in Moscow have developed a special diet to pull him out of the hunger strike," Mr. Maksimenko was quoted as saying by the news agency Interfax.
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Coppens was arrested again in November after bringing water to a group of mothers who were on a hunger strike to highlight their children's continued detention by the Ortega government.
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JERUSALEM — As Palestinian prisoners ended the third week of a mass hunger strike, Israel released videos that it said showed the strike leader, Marwan Barghouti, sneaking snacks in his cell.
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The UAE prosecutor said Abdulnoor two years ago refused to take the prescribed treatment for the tumor and she had observed a hunger strike on several occasions while in detention.
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In 2013, a multiracial coalition that had never existed before mobilized a hunger strike in several prisons, which Czifra and others joined on the outside, to protest excessive solitary confinement.
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In 93, Dharamwati, the widow of a beheaded Indian soldier, went on a hunger strike, demanding that the government return his head, drawing intense attention from reporters and opposition politicians.
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Kassem, 54, died of heart failure following the hunger strike, which he is believed to have started in September 2018, according to Pretrial Rights International, which represented the American captive.
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During the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, he staged a hunger strike, then negotiated a peaceful retreat of student demonstrators as thousands of soldiers stood by with rifles.
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On Monday, the Egyptian National Action Group, an opposition group, said that over 300 detainees in the maximum security wing of Tora prison had been on hunger strike since Jan.
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"Workers tried to talk with management in recent months, wore black bands in protest and some went on hunger strike, but to no avail," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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On Monday, seven mothers of people detained earlier by authorities had said they would begin a hunger strike in the cathedral to demand the release of their children before Christmas.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has ended a hunger strike in Tehran designed to push for her release, her husband told the BBC on Saturday.
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Mr. Rathana's four-day-old hunger strike, which he abandoned after the resignations, were supported by demonstrations in the capital, Colombo, as well as the central hills region of Kandy.
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Veronica Escobar, a Democrat from Texas, immediately demanded entry to the facility after news of the hunger strike broke in February, and she's since requested a probe into the facility.
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In September, after Manning staged a hunger strike, the military guaranteed in writing that it will provide her with gender reassignment surgery, though she has yet to receive that treatment.
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Four jailed Catalan leaders ended a hunger strike on the eve of Sanchez's visit and their party vowed to back his broad plan for the national budget in 2019 and 2020.
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ICE didn't say anything about whether fathers were refusing meals, and there have been questions in the past about when ICE officially acknowledges someone refusing meals to be on hunger strike.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A Chinese rights activist whose health is deteriorating after a three-month hunger strike should be released and given medical care, United Nations human rights experts said on Thursday.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Foreigners held in a Japanese immigration detention center have launched a hunger strike over the death of a detainee, drawing fresh attention to conditions under which they are held.
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Most recently, seven former DACA recipients and one ally were arrested on December 16th in these protests and are currently participating in a hunger strike from jail until they are released.
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Gram, who used to lead the Tony Blair Foundation, had two great-great aunts who were radical suffragists and went on hunger strike to get the right to vote for women.
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President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama pray with a group staging a public hunger strike on the National Mall, seeking to pressure Congress into passing an immigration bill in 2013.
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In 2017, eight graduate student workers at Yale made headlines when they conducted a hunger strike in an effort to force the university to recognize their union, Unite Here Local 33.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bahraini opposition leader Hassan Mushaima is being denied vital medical care in jail in the Gulf state, says his son Ali Mushaima, on hunger strike outside Bahrain's London embassy.
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The Salt Water Challenge, as it's called, asks supporters of the hunger strike to express their solidarity in a video before mixing salt in a glass of water and drinking it.
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Before leaving for South Africa on Friday, Diyab had gone on a 68-day hunger strike to demand relocation from Uruguay to an Arab country, closer to his wife and children.
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Mansoor, jailed for 10 years in 2018 for criticizing the government on social media, began a hunger strike on March 17, but fellow campaigners said this week he had ended it.
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The detainees launched their hunger strike at the center in the city of Osaka on Monday over the rejection of their applications for provisional release, the Osaka Regional Immigration Bureau said.
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There was no indication Abbas, who governs in the West Bank while Hamas militants rule Gaza, bowed to pressure on the issue, especially with hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike.
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"That 50 detainees feel forced to hunger strike, to put their lives at risk, to meet with elected officials and to demand that Canada follow international law, is shameful," she said.
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Sobol, on her 18th day of a hunger strike to protest over her exclusion from the election, said the protests would continue every week until the authorities allowed a free election.
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Then there is Berks County Residential Center, in Pennsylvania, where detainees include 22 women, recent arrivals from Central America, who went on a hunger strike in August to protest their detention.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Saudi activist has begun a hunger strike after being kept in jail past his release date for an eight-year sentence, a human rights group said on Thursday.
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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.
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"I'd like to say I was surprised, but I wasn't surprised," Mr. Gauthier declared, renewing his promise to resume the hunger strike if Nalcor failed to live up to its commitments.
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When Mr. Johnson said last month that the average length of stay at a family detention center was 20 days, that upset the women in Berks and prompted their hunger strike.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Federal immigration officials are force-feeding six immigrants through plastic nasal tubes during a hunger strike that's extended for a month inside a federal Texas detention facility.
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"A hunger strike is very dangerous," said Sergei I. Grigoryants, who served two terms in prison as a dissident in the 1970s and 1980s and was force-fed during hunger strikes.
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Mr. Cortez Diaz, 26, was freed after a judge granted him asylum last November, but not before he and other detainees staged a hunger strike to protest their treatment at Adelanto.
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Mr. Ratcliffe told BBC Radio's "Today" program on Saturday that he had talked to his wife on the phone, and that she had told him she would end the hunger strike.
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This week, detained immigrants at Richwood Detention Center in Louisiana started a hunger strike to protest the unsanitary conditions at the facility during the coronavirus outbreak, according to immigrant-rights advocates.
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The Palestinian areas are seething, with a mass hunger strike of prisoners in Israeli jails entering its sixth week and violent protests in support of the strike that have turned deadly.
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"Nine of the 11 detainees missed their ninth consecutive meal, triggering hunger strike protocols, in late December and early January," said Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson Dani Bennett in a statement.
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On Tuesday, a woman's rights activist went on hunger strike in Delhi to demand the death penalty for all rapists, saying she would not eat until a new law was passed.
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In a major counterterrorism speech on May 23, 2013, Obama announced that he was going to shut Guantanamo and relocate detainees to the US. He also referenced the mass hunger strike.
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Graduate student Jonathan Butler began a hunger strike that, along with other student organizing efforts, led to the resignation of University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe and chancellor R. Bowen Loftin.
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Update 2, 003/8/2017, 7pm EST: According to Cuban artist Amaury Pacheco, who has been in contact with Coco Fusco, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara began a hunger strike last night.
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A day before the troops moved in, he and three other intellectuals began a hunger strike in the square as an act of individual repentance, lamenting the student movement's lack of efficiency.
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Wrobel, one of the protest organizers, started a hunger strike September 14—a journey she documented via Snapchat—and vowed to continue until Jaeger was removed or she went to the hospital.
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Her sentence caught international attention when she went on a 50-day hunger strike after she was denied access to her son and her daughter was refused permission to leave the country.
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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.
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In April, hundreds of detainees at an immigration detention center in Washington state began refusing meals in a hunger strike to protest conditions at the facility and delayed immigration hearings, activists said.
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Captain Greg Sullivan of the Merced County Sheriff's Department disputed that inmates went on a "true" hunger strike, noting some ate from the commissary or received food during visits to the infirmary.
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Aside from a hunger strike—also not uncommon in prisons—there is no way to refuse the very thing on which our survival depends, no matter how unappealing the food may be.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Fourteen inmates in a Japanese immigration detention center are on hunger strike over what they call "inhumane conditions" including poor medical care, drawing fresh attention to the country's detention system.
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The hunger strike ended hours before Ramadan following a marathon 20-hour negotiating session, said Issa Qaraqe, head of the Prisoners' Affairs Committee and Qadura Fares, who leads the Palestinian Prisoners' Club.
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The most prominent of the transfers was Tariq Ba Odah, a 37-year-old Yemeni whom the military had been force-feeding daily since he went on a hunger strike in 2007.
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After winning a seat on Newark's municipal council, he briefly lived in a tent and staged a 10-day hunger strike to protest the chronically-depressed state of the former factory city.
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One hundred and fifty people at the River Correctional Center in Ferriday, La., began a hunger strike last week, but according to government officials only two dozen of them consistently denied food.
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Jon Eisenberg, a lawyer representing Mr. Diyab in an effort to make public videos of his force-feeding during hunger-strike protests at Guantánamo, said he spoke to him on June 5.
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In 1989, Mr. Zhou was part of the "Four Gentlemen of Tiananmen," a nickname for the group who went on a hunger strike during the demonstrations and later helped evacuate the square.
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He was imprisoned by the British; in prison he served as spokesman for a group of inmates associated with the political activist Bobby Sands, who died after a hunger strike in 1981.
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Last month, after Hong Kong Polytechnic University covered up a few pro-independence posters and stickers, three students staged a hunger strike and more than 2,000 others signed a statement of protest.
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Another prisoner on a lengthy hunger strike — who was hospitalized in July, though he eats a small amount of solid food each day to accompany pain medication — told his lawyer on Sept.
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Ahead of Saturday's convention, party faithful went on a hunger strike and vowed to march on Brasília later this month when parties will officially register their candidates with the top electoral court.
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We see this playing out in an immigration detention facility north of Montreal, where migrants have gone on hunger strike protesting the cramped conditions creating ripe conditions for the spread of coronavirus.
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TEHRAN — One of Iran's most prominent opposition leaders ended a one-day hunger strike on Thursday, after the government agreed to meet some of his demands, his son reported on social media.
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The film includes a brief, sketchy overview of the hunger strike as a form of political protest, but it does not address the issue that dominated "Some Mother's Son": force-feeding prisoners.
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Still, protests have recently been held in Madrid to denounce gender violence, as well as to support eight women from an association in northwestern Galicia, who started a hunger strike on Feb.
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Local media reported that he was moved into solitary confinement in retaliation for the hunger strike and for smuggling out an Op-Ed essay about it that The Times published on Sunday.
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The use of the hunger strike in Iran has in some ways put the government in an embarrassing position, as it exalted the Northern Ireland hunger strikers who once vexed the British.
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In January, Motoyama staged a five-day hunger strike after his home region of Ginowan and four other Okinawan municipalities opted out of the referendum because their assemblies refused to fund it.
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The hunger strike comes amid heightened tensions between the West and Iran, which the United States and Britain blame for explosions on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week.
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Related: Read more at 'Primary Sources,' the VICE News FOIA blog "Look at the current situation, where we are force-feeding detainees who are being held on a hunger strike," he said.
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The Ukrainian government's representative in Crimea, Boris Babin, said on Monday that these were no ordinary deaths: The dolphin army refused to work for Russian soldiers and went on a hunger strike.
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Zaghari-Ratcliffe had taken the decision to go on a hunger strike on June 15, after her daughter Gabriella turned five years old while she remains locked up, her husband previously told CNN.
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To spark a government inquiry, a female First Nations chief went on a six-week liquid-only hunger strike while camped out in a tepee on an island across from Ottawa's Parliament Hill.
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"Westworld" actress Evan Rachel Wood said Sunday she was participating in a 24-hour hunger strike to raise awareness about the children who were separated from their families upon crossing the U.S. border.
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GENEVA, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A Chinese rights activist whose health is deteriorating after a three-month hunger strike should be released and given medical care, United Nations human rights experts said on Thursday.
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Dr. Ghassan Khatib, a former senior member in the Palestinian government, told VICE News that Fatah's senior leadership not only supports the hunger strike but also is coordinating with Barghouti and the prisoners.
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The former Army intelligence analyst tried to commit suicide twice last year and has also gone on a hunger strike to protest her treatment at the US Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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"She should not be paying the price for whatever disagreements you have with the UK." In January, Zaghari-Ratcliffe went on hunger strike for several days in protest at her treatment in jail.
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"I didn't want to do this hunger strike, but they closed the doors and left me with no solution, and this was the only solution I found," Diyab had told CNN in September.
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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said there had not been a hunger strike by residents of the Karnes County Residential Center, about 51 miles (82 km) southeast of San Antonio.
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The hunger strike is a way of "bringing prisoners closer to their basic rights and demands and preventing the occupation from harming the dignity of the Palestinian prisoners," he said in a statement.
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Jews in Ethiopia have threatened to stage a mass hunger strike if the Israeli government slashes immigration funding intended to help them reunite with their relatives in Israel, the The Associated Press reports.
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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.
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RELATED: FBI employees turn to food banks In one facility -- the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York -- some inmates are protesting cuts to services during the shutdown with a hunger strike, Young said.
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This particular hunger strike is especially significant because of the breadth of participation and the fact that it was initiated in response to an intensified crackdown on prisoners in the facility's political ward.
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The hunger strike is a way of "bringing prisoners closer to their basic rights and demands and preventing the occupation from harming the dignity of the Palestinian prisoners," he said in a statement.
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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.
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"We believe that if we bring attention to what we're going through in our situation, our hunger strike, to the outside and to other people, they will know what's happening," Edwards tells MUNCHIES.
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The picketing led to the arrest of Day and several fellow-activists, and together the group resolved to go on a hunger strike until they were released and their demands had been met.
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Mr. Sakharov, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, nominated the first laureate, Anatoly Marchenko, a dissident who won the award posthumously after dying during a hunger strike in a Soviet prison two years earlier.
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Lev Ponomaryov, director of For Human Rights, a Russian rights group, sent a letter to Mr. Sentsov last month imploring him to halt his hunger strike because of the risks of force-feeding.
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TEHRAN — One of Iran's most prominent opposition leaders, under house arrest since 2011, was hospitalized early Thursday, a day after he began a hunger strike to demand a public trial, family members said.
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"Some people today are starting a hunger strike, but now they're calling it fasting action," says Emma, on the lookout for other protesters having become stranded on the north side of Lambeth Bridge.
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Yeb shattered the meeting's diplomatic reserve when he burst into tears during a speech describing Typhoon Haiyan's destruction, demanded climate justice for developing countries, and announced he would go on a hunger strike.
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Besides a focus on the brazen Jamal Khashoggi killing and Afgan Mukhtarli's hunger strike in Azerbaijan, important cases include the situation surrounding Hajar Raissouni, a reporter for independent news website Akhbar al-Youm.
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"We are calling on him to abandon his hunger strike and continue looking for a better future for him and his family," Uruguay's foreign minister, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, said at a news conference.
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Mr. Tri Quang went on a prolonged hunger strike to protest the government's actions, and Mr. Ky sent troops to surround the Hue hospital where he was staying and bring him to Saigon.
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"We've come a long way down the road," said John Tevlin, who runs a cattle auction in Cavan, and whose grandfather went on a hunger strike and fought for Irish independence in 1916.
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Immigration officials have been force-feeding a half dozen detainees who began a hunger strike to protest conditions at a processing center in Texas where they are being held, the authorities said Thursday.
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Abbas' leadership credentials have come under intense strain in recent weeks, as a hunger strike lead by Marwan Barghouti, a fellow Fatah member and leadership rival, has picked up pace throughout Israeli jails.
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