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They went on hunger strike and secured a transfer to a Northern Irish jail.
Ms. Kaur said those who went on hunger strike were placed in solitary confinement as punishment.
Six women in a jail in the eastern province of Elazig went on hunger strike on Nov.
Hundreds of other Kurdish inmates went on hunger strike in late 2018 to demand an end to his isolation.
A father of six who said he was barely given enough to feed two children went on hunger strike.
At the Berks Detention Center in Pennsylvania last summer, a group of mothers went on hunger strike to protest their seemingly infinite detention.
In 2015, he went on hunger strike for two weeks as part of a campaign to force the government to hold parliamentary elections.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
"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.
"A couple of months ago she went on hunger strike because she wasn't getting any treatment, and was promised it but it didn't happen, so she got very low again recently," Mr. Ratcliffe said.
Ms Sobol, who went on hunger strike in a bid to force her way onto the city-council ballot, was dragged out of her office and arrested by police ahead of last weekend's rally.
In January, Zaghari-Ratcliffe went on hunger strike for several days in protest after her family said she was refused permission to see a doctor to examine lumps in her breast and to address other health issues.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The health of 10 women prisoners in Turkey has deteriorated since they went on hunger strike to protest against a new security measure, a lawyers' association in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir said on Saturday.
When Ai-jen Poo was at Columbia, she was dismayed that the university didn't have a department for ethnic studies—so she and a coalition of students of colour went on hunger strike and occupied the library.
Activists from TGI Justice, a group that advocates for transgender people inside and outside of prisons, have also been supporting Cadence since she went on hunger strike to demand a new housing and search policy in San Francisco's jails.
Though Ms. Y was declared suicidal by two psychiatrists and went on hunger strike, the Health Service Executive in Ireland obtained a court order to forcibly hydrate her, and a baby was delivered by involuntary caesarean section at 25 weeks.
At a Besiktas game two years ago, a group of fans unfurled a banner in support of two teachers who went on hunger strike after being dismissed (along with 125,000 other government employees) in the wake of the abortive coup.
Literature professor Nuriye Gulmen, 35, and primary school teacher Semih Ozakca, 28, went on hunger strike after losing their jobs under a government decree as part of a widening purge of the public sector after a failed military coup last July.
Last year, women at Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)-operated T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Texas went on hunger strike to protest the abusive conditions: poor or spoiled food, minimal medical and mental health care, and hostile or violent staff.
He went on hunger strike and his fate became a rallying cry for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia over Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in the Donbass region, in a conflict that has killed more than 13,000 people.
"I started to see patients, both in the operating theater and in the emergency ward, dying for lack of medicines," said David Macineiras, a 30-year-old orthopedic surgeon and one of 12 doctors who went on hunger strike at the main state hospital in the western highland city of Merida.
He went on hunger strike, ending after 57 days in December 2019.
Clayton went on hunger strike and was released after 15 days and he went abroad.
They were imprisoned at Calton jail and went on hunger strike together. Scott was released under the Cat and Mouse Act on 24 May, her licence ran out and she failed to return to Calton jail. Scott was caught on 12 June and rearrested, when she returned to Calton jail she went on hunger strike again.
She was taken to Mountjoy Gaol, where she was interned. She immediately went on hunger strike. Dr O'Connor ordered a waterbed for her comfort.
Smaller protests continued, and on 7 March 2011, thirteen political prisoners went on hunger strike, and momentum began to grow against the Assad government. Three days later dozens of Syrian Kurds went on hunger strike in solidarity. On 12 March, major protests took place in Qamishli and Al-Hasakah to both protest the Assad government and commemorate Kurdish Martyrs Day. Protests grew over the months of March and April 2011.
These tactics produced mixed results of sympathy and alienation. As many protesters were imprisoned and went on hunger-strike, the Liberal government was left with an embarrassing situation.
She was sentenced to a month in Holloway Prison but she was released early after she went on hunger strike. She and Theresa Garnett were later convicted of assaulting a warder at Holloway. She again went on hunger strike to be released from a ten- day sentence. She returned to Bristol where she, the future policewoman Mary Allen and Annie Kenney were met at the station and a procession of supporters welcomed them.
Some protestors occupied the church and went on hunger strike, and Pope Shenouda III had to intervene by speaking to hundreds of churchgoers via a mobile phone link from Egypt.
He went on hunger strike to protest efforts to send him to Britain, but was extradited in the sixth week of his fast. He was acquitted at his trial in London in October 1991.
Dr Elizabeth "Dorothea" Chalmers Smith née Lyness (1874 – 1944) was a pioneer doctor and a militant Scottish suffragette. She was imprisoned for eight months for breaking and entering, and attempted arson, where she went on hunger strike.
The two suffragettes were on holiday but still campaigning for women's suffrage. In 1912 she was imprisoned where she went on hunger strike and was force-fed for which she was awarded the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.
In anger, Gao Yan went on hunger strike, and when Empress Dowager Lou saw this, she went on hunger strike as well. Emperor Wenxuan, fearful of what might happen to both Gao Yan and Empress Dowager Lou, allowed Gao Yan's associate Wang Xi (王晞), whom Emperor Wenxuan had earlier ordered to forced labor, to be freed from the labor so that he could encourage Gao Yan to end his hunger strike. Wang did so, and Gao Yan relented. In 558, Emperor Wenxuan died from a severe alcoholism-related illness.
Zeinab Jalalian, along with nine prisoners of ordinary offences, went on hunger strike in protest to being deprived of weekly visits and basic prison facilities on August 4, 2018. The strike ended the day after with no result.
On the day Gandhi went on hunger strike, Godse and his colleagues began planning how to assassinate Gandhi. Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Apte purchased a Beretta M1934. Along with purchasing the pistol, Godse and his accomplices shadowed Gandhi's movements.
Janet Boyd (1850 - 22 September 1928) was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and militant suffragette who in 1912 went on hunger strike in prison for which action she was awarded the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.
Alice Davies (1870 - alive in 1919 ) British suffragette and nurse, was imprisoned for protesting for women's right to vote by smashing windows, went on hunger strike and was awarded the Women's Social and Political Union Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour'.
In June 2019, both Nazanin and Richard Zaghari-Ratcliffe went on hunger strike, in protest at Nazanin's imprisonment, with Richard Zaghari-Ratcliffe camping outside the Iranian Embassy in London. They both ended the hunger strike on 29 June 2019, after 15 days.
As a protest, he went on hunger strike for over three weeks. Upon his return from Malaya, he joined the civil disobedience movement and went to jail three times. He favored the Akali Dal participation in Quit India Movement and himself took part in it.
His work appeared in translation in the Beirut39 anthology edited by Samuel Shimon. In May 2010, Boukebba went on hunger strike to protest working conditions at ENTV, where he had worked for the previous five years as a producer and presenter of cultural programmes.
Gangwar travelled to Delhi on 24 December 2012 and went on hunger strike as he considered the Government was not taking enough action on the Delhi rape case of Vasant Vihar. On receiving medical advice he gave up the strike on the 6th of January after being hospitalized.
Suffragette being force-fed - Cheffins endured this in 1912 Georgina Fanny Cheffins (1863 - 29 July 1932) was an English militant suffragette who on her imprisonment in 1912 went on hunger strike for which action she received the Hunger Strike Medal from the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
She was arrested in Leeds in November 1913 charged with Clara Giveen attempting to burn down the grandstand at Leeds Football Ground; she again went on hunger strike and was released from prison in December 1913. Burkitt also organised the Stoke-on-Trent WSPU branch for a few months that year.
Paraic O'Brien, Left to die in British detention: who was Alois Dvorzac?, Channel 4 News, 18 March 2014. The Nigerian asylum-seeker Ifa Muaza went on hunger strike in 2013. In April 2015, over 200 detainees joined in a collective hunger-strike, which subsequently spread to Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre.
Florence was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for stone-throwing in June 1909 and went on hunger strike and was given another two month's sentence on Black Friday in November 1910. Her signature is on the Holloway banner made by WSPU members in prison, now in the Museum of London.
Edith Marian Begbie in about 1912 Edith Marian Begbie (8 February 1866 - 27 March 1932) was a militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who went on hunger strike in Winson Green Prison in Birmingham in 1912 and who was awarded the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.
In May 2012, it was reported that Israeli officials were conducting secret negotiations with Egypt, and were discussing the possibility of releasing all 83 Egyptians incarcerated in Israeli prisons in exchange for Tarabin. In 2013, Tarabin went on hunger strike in protest of his imprisonment. In December 2015, Tarabin was released from prison.
Kate Williams Evans Kate Williams Evans (1 October 1866 – 2 February 1961) was a Welsh suffragette, activist and campaigner for women's rights. She was imprisoned in Holloway Prison where she went on hunger strike for which she received the WSPUs Hunger Strike Medal which was sold to National Museum Wales for £48,640 in 2018.
Brand was taken to Cairo, where he was questioned by the British for weeks. On 22 June 1944 he was interviewed by Ira Hirschmann of the American War Refugee Board; Hirschmann wrote a positive report about Brand, but his influence was limited.; . Brand went on hunger strike for 17 days in protest at his detention.
She became a firebrand speaker at meetings in the staunchly republican West Kerry area. In April 1923 she was shot by Free State troops and arrested. She was subsequently imprisoned in the North Dublin Union, where she followed the example of other republicans and went on hunger strike. She was released two weeks later.
After independence of India in 1947, Madras Presidency became Madras State. Madras State had multilingual speakers which included Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu speakers. In 1952, Potti Sreeramulu demanded a separate state for Telugu speaking people with Madras as its capital. He went on hunger strike with his demand, and later died during his fasts.
They were all imprisoned at Calton jail and went on hunger strike together. Scott was released under the Cat and Mouse Act on 24 May from Calton jail. Kelso was a flat racing track until 1888, when the United Border Hunt moved to the course. Since then, Kelso has run exclusively under National Hunt rules.
In protest about not being treated as a political prisoner she, Marsh and Leigh went on hunger strike. They became some of the first suffragette hunger strikers to be forcibly fed. Ainsworth obviously objected to being forcibly fed. After she was released she wrote an open letter to the first hunger striker, Marion Wallace Dunlop, describing her experience.
Corbett said the protestors were all courageous and 'would not stop until they got the barricades down, they were glorious'. Churchill was quoted in the Dundee Courier describing them as 'a band of silly, neurotic, hysterical women'. Corbett and the other women were arrested, imprisoned and went on hunger strike, but the two men were released without charge.
May 5, 2005, the groups held a hunger strike inside Distefano's office, until it was announced that the University would begin the affiliation process. CASA members again went on hunger strike for fifteen days from April 12 to April 27, 2006 until the University accepted the Designated Supplier Program proposed by the United Students Against Sweatshops.
Davies was taken to St George's Hospital where he underwent an operation; the bullet was not removed during the process. The hostages were also taken to the same hospital for a check-up, but none needed treatment. They then gave preliminary statements to the police at Cannon Row police station. While on remand, Davies went on hunger strike.
The third massive sit in took place in the Chinese High School on 2 June 1954. This time, students requested for the postponement of call-up for National Service. Though, the lack of response from the government saw the students went on hunger strike on the 15 June. The students only dispersed on the 24 June.
Vladislav Ryazantsev on opposition rally On 6 December 2011, the day of the protest against results Russian legislative elections, Ryazantsev was arrested in Rostov-on-Don during mass peaceful rally in the center of Rostov for allegedly «resisting police officers» and detained for five days. While in prison, Ryazantsev went on hunger strike to protest against the conditions.
Kelly's maternal grandfather, Philip Murphy, served as an officer in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921). In 1922 he was interned by the Government of Northern Ireland. Murphy's detention file refers to him as 'quartermaster of the West Fermanagh IRA Battalion'. He went on hunger strike to protest at his detention.
St Hilda's College (c1921) Violet Mary Doudney (5 March 1889 - 14 January 1952) was a teacher and militant suffragetteViolet Mary Doudney - Women's Suffrage: History and Citizenship Resources for Schools who went on hunger strike in Holloway Prison where she was force-fed. She was awarded the Hunger Strike Medal by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
Appointed O/C of the No.2 Battalion North Tipperary Brigade IRA in 1918, his hurling career ended when he was imprisoned in Belfast for drilling members of the IRA. During his time at Crumlin Jail, Collison went on hunger strike. A supporter of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Collison later served as a member of the Free State Army during the Civil War.
Barrett was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at Holloway. She immediately went on hunger strike, was transferred to Canterbury Prison, and after five days she was released under the "Cat and Mouse Act". She moved into "Mouse Castle", 2 Campden Hill Square, home of the Brackenbury family who were sympathetic suffragists. After three weeks at the house, Barrett emerged and was rearrested.
Before acting Lau was an optician for some time and treated Bey Logans' wife's. After the closure of Digital Broadcasting Corporation on 10 October 2012. Lau, activists and radio hosts began a three- day sit-in protest in front of the government headquarters due to freedom of speech concerns. Lau went on hunger strike more than 130 hours and eventual went to hospital.
Several of Vautier's other films were presented at Cannes, including Mourir pour des images, Comment on devient un ennemi de l'intérieur, Les trois cousins, and Vacances tunisiennes. In January 1973, he went on hunger strike to protest film censorship. He received the Order of the Ermine in 2000. On 4 January 2015, he died at a hospital in Cancale, Brittany.
Humphreys, her mother and aunt were arrested in the aftermath of the raid of 4 November.Townshend, "The Republic", p.419. Sheila was put in solitary confinement and she went on hunger strike in protest. She went on a further hunger-strike, this time for 31 days, when she was among the prisoners confined after the end of the Civil War in May 1923.
During World War II Stampfl taught physical education at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Barnet (then holders of the Public Schools Challenge Cup for athletics) from February to June 1940, when he was suddenly interned as an enemy alien.E. H. Jenkins (1972) Elizabethan Headmaster 1930–1961 He was transported to Canada and then Australia. He went on hunger strike to protest at his confinement.
Elsie and Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau (alive in 1914), British suffragette sisters: Elsie was arrested for smashing shop windows, went on hunger strike and was awarded the Women's Social and Political Union Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour'. Mathilde was a musician and suffragette, and was imprisoned twice, also for smashing windows, and was a founder of London's women's chess club and active vegetarian.
She was not elected in the 1922 Irish general election but was returned in the 1923 general election for the Dublin South constituency. In common with other Republican candidates, she did not take her Dáil seat. She was arrested again in November 1923. In prison, she went on hunger strike, and within a month, she and other prisoners were released.
A bystanding man who said 'women pay taxes too' was beaten. Cardiff University Archive has an image of Craggs from the Daily Sketch in 1912. In 1912, Craggs was imprisoned in Holloway Prison for smashing windows and went on hunger strike. Later Craggs was arrested for carrying materials for causing arson, near Nuneham Courtney, the home of Government Cabinet member, Lewis Harcourt.
In 1990 while in prison he went on hunger strike for 432 days, leaving his health permanently damaged and resulting in him losing the use of his legs. He was released on parole from prison in 1994 under a Spanish law which says that the seriously ill should not be jailed, and in 2007 he was pardoned by the Spanish Government.
Irish Academic Press, 2006. He was a member of the IRA during the War of Independence, 1919–21, and was imprisoned in Mountjoy Prison where he went on hunger strike. In November 1920 he qualified as a barrister in King's Inns. As part of the 50 year commemoration of the rising in 1966 his reminiscences of Easter week were recorded by RTÉ.
During her imprisonment, she briefly went on hunger strike in protest against their detention, but relented after enduring several incidents of force-feeding. Several weeks later, both were released and were subsequently expelled from the country, becoming personae non gratae. She relocated to London. In 1978 she was among the founding members of Zimbabwe Project Trust, a humanitarian organization connected to the Roman Catholic Church.
The law not only expanded the definition of "terrorism" but also further restricted freedom of expression in Jordan. Amnesty International condemned the prison term imposed on her: Toujan was reportedly maltreated in jail. This caused an outcry of human right groups within and outside Jordan. In prison she went on hunger strike, during which she lost 12 kg (1 st 12 lb) in less than a month.
She again went on hunger strike, but the government had authorised the use of force-feeding on prisoners. The historian Gay Gullickson describes the tactic as "extremely painful, psychologically harrowing, and raised the possibility of dying in jail from medical error or official misjudgment". Davison said that the experience "will haunt me with its horror all my life, and is almost indescribable. ... The torture was barbaric".
Shortly after his arrest, Dr. Khazali went on hunger strike. On Feb 14, 2012, after this days on hunger strike and losing 45 lbs, he was taken to Evin Prison's clinic for treatment. He has mentioned that his website has been hacked and personally predicted to be arrested soon because a day before the last time that he was arrested, his site had been hacked similarly.
He was involved in the establishment of the Republican courts in County Clare. O'Higgins was re-elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) at the 1921, 1922 and 1923 elections. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it. During the Irish Civil War, he was imprisoned in Oriel House, Mountjoy Jail and Tintown and went on hunger strike for twenty five days.
Soon after that sentence, upon being transferred from Patna's Beur jail to that of Bhagalpur, Singh went on hunger strike in protest of the facilities and being split from Akhlaq Ahmed and Arun Kumar, who had received death penalties in the same case. The jail authorities were unsympathetic, noting that rules dictated those sentenced to death should sleep on the floor and be allowed only simple food.
Emily Davison, a WSPU member, unexpectedly ran onto the track during the 1913 Epsom Derby and died under the King's horse. These tactics produced mixed results of sympathy and alienation. As many protesters were imprisoned and went on hunger-strike, the British government was left with an embarrassing situation. From these political actions, the suffragists successfully created publicity around their institutional discrimination and sexism.
Following Fortuyn's assassination, Jukema caused mild controversy when (along with fellow LPF parliamentarian Milos Zvonar) he stated he would help to force-feed Fortuyn's killer Volkert van der Graaf after der Graaf went on hunger strike in prison. For the For the 2006 parliamentary elections, Jukema stood for the One NL party which was founded by fellow LPF politician Joost Eerdmans but was not elected.
Dennehy had wanted to get arrested, so as to generate publicity. He was supported by working class local residents because did not want to be evicted from their homes so that offices could be built. He next went on hunger strike. In response, supporters marched every night from the General Post Office to Mountjoy prison during and 400 people blocked O’Connell Street Bridge on 20 January.
M. Parayre eventually went on hunger strike in an attempt to clear his name, with Matisse acting in lieu of a lawyer. The Humberts had already fled the country, but they were arrested in Madrid in December 1902. Thérèse Humbert was tried and sentenced to five years' hard labor. Her two brothers, who had masqueraded as Crawford's nephews, were sentenced to two and three years each.
Florence Macfarlane in 1912 Florence Geraldine Macfarlane aka "Muriel Muir" (5 October 1867 - 28 October 1944) was a nurse, militant suffragetteFlorence Macfarlane - Roll of Honour of Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914 - The National Archives and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) who went on hunger strike in Winson Green Prison in Birmingham in 1912 and who was awarded the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.
Elizabeth and Agnes Thomson were Scottish suffragettes and members of the Edinburgh branch of the Women's Social and Political Union. They were arrested for their involvement in WSPU protests in Scotland and London. The sisters were involved in the first arson attempt in Scotland as part of the WSPU arson campaign in 1913. Elizabeth was imprisoned for her role and went on hunger strike.
Being held on remand, she again went on hunger strike and was released. As "Phyllis North" she was arrested in Liverpool and was brought back to Carnarvon where she received a prison sentence of three months. Wharry was sent to Holloway Prison to complete this sentence, and where she was held, on hunger strike, in solitary confinement. Wharry was given a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' by WSPU.
A week later, Amir was caught handing a pre-prepared bag of semen to his wife, and the visit was terminated. After the incident, a disciplinary tribunal barred visits from his wife for 30 days, and phone calls for 14 days. He was fined NIS 100 (then US$21). When the IVF treatments were withheld due to a petition by several members of Knesset, Amir went on hunger strike.
Basu was born on 2 March 1956 in Comilla to Pramath Chandra Dhar and Maya Dhar. When she was in class 8 she led a protest to remove a textbook from curriculum against Pakistan Government. She also went on hunger strike in front of Comilla Education Board which was a part of their protest. When the Liberation War of Bangladesh started Basu crossed the border and went to Tripura.
Naamam (Jai Ganesh) was a union leader respected by the labourers, he lived with his wife Punniyalakshmi (Kavitha) and two children in abject poverty. He even went on hunger strike over a salary dispute. The last day of the hunger strike, he was poisoned by his friend Ethiraj (Alex) and thus Ethiraj became the new union leader. Punniyalakshmi and her children suffered hunger, thus her baby girl died.
Mass demonstrations in support of political status for Corsican prisoners were common and FLNC supporters were active in all protests which could be classified as "Corsican V French".Ramsay pgs. 174–175 In November 1980, 12 FLNC prisoners in Paris went on hunger- strike in a protest against the inequality of treatment for Corsican nationalist prisoners. This protest overlapped with that of six IRA hunger strikers in Northern Ireland.
She went on hunger strike and was released after five and a half days, during which time she lost ; she stated that she "felt very weak" as a result. She was arrested again in September the same year for throwing stones to break windows at a political meeting; the assembly, which was to protest at the 1909 budget, was only open to men. She was sent to Strangeways prison for two months.
Catherine Tolson (21 August 1890 - 3 March 1924) was an English nurse and suffragetteRoll of Honour of Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914 - The National Archives from Ilkley in West Yorkshire active in the Women's Social and Political Union. She was arrested and imprisoned in 1909 and 1911 when she went on hunger strike and was force-fed for which she received a Hunger Strike Medal from the WSPU. This was sold at auction in 2004.
While being returned to his cell, Wisniewski attacked the director of the jail with a sock filled with batteries. During the trial, which took several months, Wisniewski went on hunger strike, but was force- fed. On December 4, 1981, Stefan Wisniewski was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for murder, kidnapping, coercion of a constitutional body, and membership in a terrorist organization. He commented on the verdict by saying that he did not care.
Fanya Baron was among 13 anarchists held at Taganka prison without charges. In July 1921, they went on hunger strike, attracting the attention of visiting French, Spanish and Russian syndicalists who argued for their release. Leon Trotsky remarked at the time "We do not imprison the real anarchists, but criminals and bandits who cover themselves by claiming to be anarchists".Voline, 1947 Fanya was shot by the Cheka on 30 September 1921.
Analysts said that the shutdown was costing the company 1 billion rupees ($18 million) a day and costing the company market share. In July 2013, the workers went on hunger strike to protest the continuing jailing of their colleagues and launched an online campaign to support their demands. A total of 148 workers were charged with the murder of Human Resources Manager Avineesh Dev. The court dismissed charges against 117 of the workers.
O'Sullivan was arrested again. Sent to Mountjoy Gaol he went on hunger strike, which precipitated his early release in December. In February 1920, at Collins' request, O'Sullivan agreed to replace him as Adjutant General of the Irish Republican Army. Joining the Supreme Council of Irish Republican Brotherhood in November 1921, he was one of Collins' closest confidantes running many secret missions for Collins, who often referred to him as "George," his undercover nom de plume.
She was imprisoned in Mountjoy, then Kilmainham where she went on hunger strike, and then the North Dublin Union from which she escaped with a number of fellow female prisoners, but was rearrested in May 1923. After the ceasefire, she was released. Kelly had been working as a freelance journalist throughout the 1920s. When The Irish Press was launched in 1931, Kelly was on the staff as the first women's page editor in Ireland.
On 31 July, she smashed a window at the Home Office and was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. She went on hunger strike and was released under the "Cat and Mouse Act". She was rearrested on 30 October at Holborn tube station while selling the WSPU's newspaper, The Suffragette. The criminal record office had circulated her photograph and description as a "known militant suffragette" (5 feet 4 inches, grey eyes, hair turning grey).
He was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment for defamation. The sentence was condemned by Amnesty International, Reporters without Borders and media. Dr.Qadir went on hunger strike when in prison and stopped when he could get his demands. Dr Kamal Sayid Qadir gets worse in health on hunger strike He was released from custody on January 25, 2006, as a result of efforts by special envoy of the Austrian foreign ministry, Gudrun Harrer.
Requesting Indian government to arrange a ceasefire between IPKF and Tamil Tigers she went on hunger strike, a fast unto death on 19 March 1988 at Mahmangam Pillayar temple for a month and died on 19 April 1988. Tamil Tiger Chief Prabhakaran said that "her sacrifice symbolized the uprising of Tamileelam motherhood and Annai Poopathy made an indelible mark in the golden history of the Tamil struggle". Her anniversary of her death is commemorated by Tamils.
In November 2014, Fort Lauderdale finally enacted a sharing ban, drawing a similar flurry of media attention as in Orlando. Several Food Not Bombs activists were arrested sharing food and other acts of civil disobedience, for which they received "Civil Liberties Arrest" medals from the Broward County ACLU. Other FNB activists went on hunger strike against enforcement of the law. A court injunction stopped enforcement of the sharing ban in early December 2014 pending several court cases.
She was charged with obstruction and was sentenced to three weeks in prison. She was imprisoned in the London Holloway Prison, and was the first Dundee suffragette to be held there. She went on hunger strike, and was released early, "on consideration of all the circumstances and as an act of clemency". In 1914 she was ejected from a Ramsay MacDonald meeting, and this led to a split between the suffragettes and the Dundee Labour Party.
She became branch secretary in Wolverhampton and a member of the National Executive by February 1908. Sproson was also a member of the Women's Tax Resistance League, who refused to pay tax in protest against disenfranchisement; tax resistance was also a policy of the WFL. In May 1911 she was sent to prison for seven days for refusing to pay for a dog licence. She went on hunger strike and was reclassified as a political prisoner.
On being imprisoned in Holloway Prison Dr. Sheppard went on hunger strike and was force-fed.I. Miller, Chapter 2‘A Prostitution of the Profession’?: The Ethical Dilemma of Suffragette Force-Feeding, 1909–14 - A History of Force Feeding: Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909-1974, Palgrave Macmillan (2016) On her release Sheppard received the Hunger Strike Medal from the leadership of the WSPU. The medal is engraved with the words: "Fed by Force 1/3/12".
Up to 700 opposition activists, including 7 presidential candidates, were arrested in the post election crackdown. Furthermore, at least 25 journalists were arrested; a detained Russian press photographer went on hunger strike on December 21, 2010. According to a detainee, after being shipped to a detainment center after the protests, there were rows of men on every floor standing facing the walls with their hands behind their backs. Women were separated and moved to another floor.
Emad Bahavar () is an Iranian political activist affiliated with the Freedom Movement of Iran and currently holding office as head of the party's youth wing. Bahavar was arrested following the post-election protests in 2009, and released after five years of imprisonment. He went on hunger strike in 2011, along with eleven other political prisoners. Bahavar registered to run for a City Council of Tehran seat in 2017 elections, however he was disqualified by the authorities.
On 6 April an ongoing protest began, which continued into the middle of May. The next major protest took place on 11 April 2009, which attracted more than 200,000 Tamils. While the protesters diminished in numbers later on in the day, a number of people took place in non-stop protests on the streets, similar to protests that occurred in Canada. Two British Tamils, 21-year-old Sivatharsan Sivakumaravel and 28-year-old Parameswaran Subramanyam, went on hunger strike.
AI Index: EUR/44/65/88 (November 1988). See an online edition in pictures Since 1986 relatives of prisoners organized in the Human Rights Association (HRA) or in groups in solidarity with certain prisoners such as TAYAD).Background of the organization on a private homepage, accessed on 27 August 2009 With their help the prisoners tried to make their demands for improved prison conditions for which they frequently went on hunger strike (often also called death fast) public.
He was arrested in connection with the First Lahore Conspiracy Case and was sentenced to death in 1915. The sentence was later commuted to one of transportation for life: he was imprisoned in the Andaman Islands until 1920 and subjected to hard labour. In protest against such harsh treatment of political prisoners, Bhai Parmanand went on hunger strike for two months. The King-Emperor, George V, released him in 1920 as the result of a general amnesty order.
In 2006, the Thai government already drew international attention for carrying out a military coup. More focus was given in 2007, when over four hundred North Koreans asylum seekers went on hunger strike at the detention center in Bangkok. The UNHCR urged that the Thai government address the problem regarding the living conditions of the asylum seekers. Consequently, there was a confidential negotiation between Thai government and the South Korean government, which put an end to the hunger strike.
The Frisco Five, also known as #Frisco5, are a group of protesters who went on hunger strike on April 21, 2016 in San Francisco, California in front of the San Francisco Police Department Mission Station to demonstrate against episodes of police brutality, use-of-force violations, and racial bias. specifically the deaths of Alex Nieto on March 21, 2014, Mario Woods on December 2, 2015, Amilcar Perez Lopez on February 26, 2015, and Luis Gongora on April 7, 2016.
Following their arrest, on 20 October, all went on hunger strike and were released after four days of the ten days imprisonment. The prison governor and medical supervisor assessed that due to her 'configuration' Archdale 'would be particularly difficult to feed forcibly'. In December 1911 Archdale received a sentence of two months' imprisonment for window-breaking at Whitehall. Her daughter, Betty Archdale (1907-2000), remembered collecting stones for her mother to use, and visiting her in Holloway Prison.
By the time O'Malley recovered from his wounds, the Civil War was over and he was transferred to Mountjoy Prison. During this period of imprisonment, he went on hunger strike for forty-one days, in protest at the continued detention of IRA prisoners after the war. During this time he was elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin North at the 1923 general election. He did not contest the June 1927 general election.
In March 1972, Cahill was part of an IRA delegation that held direct talks with the British Labour Party leader Harold Wilson. However, although the IRA called a three-day ceasefire for the talks, no permanent end to violence was agreed upon. Upon his return to Ireland, Cahill was arrested in Dublin by Gardaí and charged with IRA membership. He went on hunger strike for twenty-three days and was subsequently released due to lack of evidence.
On 10 January, he took part in a demonstration of small and medium businesspeople in Minsk protesting against the presidential decree #760 that introduced limitations to SME's business (for instance, allowing them to hire only relatives of the business owner). On January 13, he was arrested in Viciebsk and brought to Minsk. On the following day he was given 15 days of arrest for participating in the demonstration. During this period he went on hunger strike.
The move followed the government's decision to freeze processing of all claims by asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, and the re-opening of the Curtin Detention Centre."World Refugee Day 2010" Refugee Advocacy Network. Accessed: 8 May 2010. RAC also protested outside the Maribyrnong Detention Centre in 2010 after a Tamil detainee went on hunger strike after his refugee claim had been accepted but still awaits security clearance from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
In 1983 he was sentenced to 16 years' jail, reduced to nine in 1989. While in France, Scalzone worked for a political solution to the "Years of Lead" that could lead to an amnesty to political refugees and prisoners. In 1998 he briefly and secretly came back to Italy passing through Corsica: a photographic service by the newsmagazine L'Espresso later revealed the episode. In 2002 he went on hunger strike in protest against the extradition of Paolo Persichetti.
He gained some notoriety in 2004 when he was involved in a brawl with the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Savelyev is a grand master at Tai Kwon Do and the brawl had to be broken up by other lawmakers. The footage of the fight is available on YouTube. Savelyev gained further recognition when, alongside Rogozin and three other Rodina deputies, he went on hunger strike to protest against changes to the system of social welfare in Russia.
Sarah Benett as Treasurer of the Women's Freedom League in 1909 by Lena Connell Sarah Barbara Benett (1850 - 8 February 1924) was a suffragette, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and Treasurer of the Women's Freedom League (WFL). She was one of the "Brown Women" who walked from Edinburgh to London in 1912 and went on hunger strike during her imprisonment in Holloway Prison for which she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal and Holloway brooch.
And less than a month later, she was setting fire to Sanderstead station but not caught, and again "Phyllis Brady"/ Beamish was with Elsie Duval and both were arrested in Mitcham, with paraffin and other inflamables in suitcases. Beamish was sentenced to six weeks in Holloway prison. Beamish went on hunger strike and was force fed. She and Elsie Duval were the first to be released on 28th April 1913 under what became known as the 'Cat and Mouse' Act i.e.
In prison he immediately started a hunger strike in protest at his internment and the fact that he was tried by a military court. Eleven other Irish Republican prisoners in Cork Jail went on hunger strike at the same time. On 26 August, the British Government stated that "the release of the Lord Mayor would have disastrous results in Ireland and would probably lead to a mutiny of both military and police in south of Ireland." MacSwiney's hunger strike gained world attention.
She served time in a number of Irish prisons before being sent to Walton Prison in Liverpool, where she went on hunger strike. From there she was sent to Mountjoy Prison. In October 1921, she famously escaped from Mountjoy Jail with three other women, Mae Burke, Eileen Keogh, and Eithne Coyle. The escape had been personally arranged by Michael Collins, and it made international headlines, featuring in the New York Times on 31 October 1921 under the heading "Four Women Break Jail".
The latter organization named Díaz Hernández a prisoner of conscience, calling for his immediate release. His arrest was also criticized by The Committee to Protect Journalists, who alleged that it was part of a broad "crackdown" on the non- government aligned press, and by Reporters Without Borders, who wrote to Fidel Castro to demand his release. Díaz Hernández himself went on hunger strike to protest his detention for the first ten days of his imprisonment. Díaz Hernández was released in January 2001.
When imprisoned they went on hunger strike, to which the government responded by force-feeding them. The first suffragette to be force fed was Evaline Hilda Burkitt. The death of one suffragette, Emily Davison, when she ran in front of the king's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby, made headlines around the world. The WSPU campaign had varying levels of support from within the suffragette movement; breakaway groups formed, and within the WSPU itself not all members supported the direct action.
The case came to trial on 15 October 1913. Both women were sentenced to eight months imprisonment and found themselves back in Duke Street Prison, and went on hunger strike again. They were both released on temporary discharge on 20 October 1913 following a medical officer's report which stated that Ethel Moorhead was in an extremely feeble physical condition and that Dorothea Smith was very weak. Both women failed to return before the expiry of their licence on 27 October.
He was jailed again in 1985 for possessing a gun and 900 rounds of ammunition. In 1986 he went on hunger strike over conditions, shedding two stone in weight and being hospitalised before ending his protest. During this spell he had an extra year added to his sentence after taking part in a prison protest that caused £1 million of damage to Crumlin Road gaol. Soon after this Curry fell out with the UDA and left the group, returning to the RHC.
Votes for Women! She gave her address then as 61 Nethergate, Dundee. Known as "Dundee’s hunger-striker", during her imprisonment in Winson Green Prison in BirminghamSuffragette Autograph Album To Be Auctioned - Woman and Her Sphere website Macfarlane went on hunger strike along with Gertrude Wilkinson and her sister Edith Begbie. On their release from prison both sisters were unwell and appeared very frail; Florence continued with her militant campaign for women's suffrage on her release but Edith Begbie was not arrested again.
Saida Menebhi (1952, Marrakesh - 11 December 1977, Casablanca) was a Moroccan poet and activist of a Marxist revolutionary movement Ila al-Amam. In 1975, she, together with five other members of the movement, was sentenced for seven years of imprisonment for anti-state activity. In the jail in Casablanca, she went on hunger strike and died on the 34th day of the strike. Her poetry, collected and published in 2000, is considered a prime example of Moroccan revolutionary and feminist literature.
Mohammad Nazari (born 1971) () is an Azeri-Kurdish political prisoner from Iran. Nazari was arrested on May 30, 1994 by the Ministry of Intelligence in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and was sentenced to death for his alleged membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI). His sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment during the 1999 Eid-e-Qorban pardons by the Supreme Leader of Iran. In 2012, Nazari sewed his lips and went on hunger strike in protest of authorities' disregard for his pleads.
Edwards was sent to Perth Prison on 3 July 1914 to serve her three month sentence. The next day, she was examined by the medical officer who recorded that she was in a ‘somewhat hysterical state’. He paid no heed to her medical certificate that stated she had a weak heart as it was written by a lady doctor who, in his opinion, could not judge the present situation. Edwards went on hunger strike fully expecting that her medical certificate would exempt her from force feeding.
Meynell became liable for call-up for military service in 1916, and applied for exemption on the ground of being a conscientious objector. He appeared before a local tribunal in Marylebone in August 1916 and a county appeal tribunal in September. He was granted exemption from combatant service only, and surrendered himself to the civil police on 29 January 1917. Handed over by Westminster magistrates to the military authorities, he was held in the guard room at Hounslow Barracks and went on hunger strike.
In 2011 she was elected as a member of Parliament representing the Sırnak province, but due to her arrest she could not be sworn in. The court ruled that the parliamentary immunity, which usually all Turkish Member of Parliaments have, does not apply in her case. Politicians from the Labour, Democracy and Freedom Block and other organizations protested against this ruling. In February 2012, she went on hunger strike along with many other fellow detainees and released a statement in support for Abdullah Öcalan.
She went on hunger strike again and was force- fed for eight days before being released. On the night of the 1911 census, 2 April, Davison hid in a cupboard in St Mary Undercroft, the chapel of the Palace of Westminster. She remained hidden overnight to avoid being entered onto the census; the attempt was part of a wider suffragette action to avoid being listed by the state. She was found by a cleaner, who reported her presence; Davison was arrested but not charged.
In Bow Street court she explained her actions were against police brutality following the events on Black Friday when women protestors were violently abused and assaulted, leaving a 'dark shadow'. She also objected to the severe sentences for Alan MacDougall and William Ball. Police and suffragettes on Black Friday in November 1910 Again in Holloway Prison, Crocker went on hunger strike and was force-fed. Crocker took part in the play An Allegory by Vera Wentworth once whilst in Holloway, and played the part, Fear.
Many people were imprisoned. Many of these prisoners were mistreated, some were tortured, and some went on hunger strike. One of the many locations where men from Co. Wexford were imprisoned was at Kilworth Camp, Co. Cork. Probably the most high-profile death of the War in Co. Wexford was that of Percival Lea-Wilson, a District Inspector in the R.I.C. who was stationed at Gorey. He was shot dead by the I.R.A. outside his Gorey home on 15 June 1920, on the orders of Michael Collins.
The Bihar Movement turned into a Satyagraha and volunteers kept protesting at the Bihar Legislative Assembly, inviting arrest starting on 4 December. Indira Gandhi did not change the Chief Minister of Bihar, Abdul Ghafoor, because she did not want to give in to protestors' calls for the dissolution of the assembly as she did in Gujarat. JP kept travelling all across India, strengthening and uniting opposition parties to defeat Congress. The election in Gujarat was delayed until Morarji Desai went on hunger strike demanding it be held.
The police eventually arrested over 200 of the Silent Sentinels, many of whom went on hunger strike after being imprisoned. The prison authorities force fed them, creating an uproar that fueled public debate on women's suffrage. When the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, the NAWSA cooperated with the war effort. Shaw was appointed as head of the Women's Committee for the Council of National Defense, which was established by the federal government to coordinate resources for the war and to promote public morale.
The prison authorities were confused when she was sentenced to one month hard labour and gave her no extra work. She was befriended by the many other prisoners including Dr Alice Stewart Ker who got her to smuggle a letter out to her daughter when Billinghurst was released. On 8 January 1913, she was tried at the Old Bailey and sentenced to eight months in Holloway Prison for damaging letters in a postbox. She subsequently went on hunger strike, and was force-fed along with other suffragettes.
There have been regular demonstrations held by the Kurdish community to raise awareness of the isolation of Öcalan. In October 2012 several hundred Kurdish political prisoners went on hunger strike for better detention conditions for Öcalan and the right to use the Kurdish language in education and jurisprudence. The hunger strike lasted 68 days until Öcalan demanded its end. Öcalan was banned from receiving visits almost two years from 6 October 2014 until 11 September 2016, when his brother Mehmet Öcalan visited him for Eid al-Adha.
Parker joined other suffragettes in defiantly embroidering her signature on a piece of cloth, under the eyes of the wardresses, now known as The Suffragette Handkerchief. Like many suffragettes she went on hunger strike and was subjected to force-feeding. alt= Later that year she was imprisoned twice, once for breaking windows, and once for breaking into The Music Hall in Aberdeen with the intention of disrupting an appearance by David Lloyd George. On both occasions she was released after going on hunger-strike for several days.
As she was carried out of court during her trial, she waved her handkerchief to supporters and cried, "It doesn't matter; we shall go on fighting, fighting, fighting". She was sentenced to three months, went on hunger strike, and was force-fed at Holloway Prison. She wrote a pamphlet as "Marie Roberts" about her suffrage work and prison experience. Nellie moved back to Birmingham during the First World War, where she joined the Post Office and became the first mail sorter for the British Expeditionary Force.
Tried by a military court, with nine others, in May 1881, she was sentenced to ten years in the mines in Kara katorga. She was transferred to Butyrka prison, in Moscow, and then prison in Krasnoyarsk. There, she complained to other prisoners that a warder named Ostrovsky had insulted her, though she would not repeat what he had said or done. This set off a protest in which Kovalskaya and others went on hunger strike, and a prisoner named Alexander Dolgushin slapped the offending warder.
In March 2010, Donnelly was convicted of assaulting a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer and sentenced to seven months imprisonment. While serving his sentence Donnelly briefly went on hunger strike following his removal from the republican wing of HM Prison Maghaberry. Prison officials explained the decision claiming Donnelly had received a death threat from the Real IRA, a charge Donnelly denied. In August 2010 Donnelly was charged under the auspices of "terrorism legislation" in connection with three pipe bomb attacks in September 2009.
Anna Lewis (suffragette) (1889 - 1976) was a British suffragette, member of the militant Women's Social and Political Union. Lewis was imprisoned at least three times, went on hunger strike and was force-fed by the authorities, fighting the cause of women's rights to vote. Lewis was awarded the Holloway brooch (twice) and the WPSU Hunger Strike Medal on 10th February 1914 'for Valour'. Her medals were auctioned to a private buyer for over £27,000, one of the highest prices for such items in May 2019.
As many protesters were imprisoned and went on hunger-strike, the Liberal government was left with an embarrassing situation. From these political actions, the suffragists successfully created publicity around their institutional discrimination and sexism. Historians generally argue that the first stage of the militant suffragette movement under the Pankhursts in 1906 had a dramatic mobilizing effect on the suffrage movement. Women were thrilled and supportive of an actual revolt in the streets; the membership of the militant WSPU and the older NUWSS overlapped and was mutually supportive.
That November she joined a protest that disturbed a talk by Winston Churchill at his constituency in Dundee. She was arrested along with Helen Archdale, Catherine Corbett and Adela Pankhurst and sentenced to ten days in prison. During her sentence she went on hunger strike and became the first woman in Scotland to take this form of protest. Mary's brother William Blathwayt and Joachim at Eagle House in 1910 Eagle House near Bath in Somerset had become an important refuge for suffragettes who had been released from prison after hunger strikes.
Evaline Hilda Burkitt by her sister Lillian, who was also a suffragette Evaline Hilda Burkitt (19 July 1876 - 7 March 1955) was a British suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). A militant activist for women's rights, she went on hunger strike in prison and was the first suffragette to be forcibly-fed. Between 1909 and 1914 she was force-fed 292 times and was the last woman to be so treated in Holloway Prison. She was a recipient of the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.
She went on hunger strike for four days and was force-fed in prison. Once in imprisonment she had to read only the Bible and a book called 'How to have a Happy Home and Keep It. Another time she criticised the Prison Governor for not removing his hat to address her. Crocker was arrested eight times for suffragette activism and on 1 March 2012 went to Holloway Prison to serve three months with hard labour. Her crime was breaking the Post Office windows with Nellie Taylor in Kings Road.
They fought a battle at Glenamoy on 16 September 1922 where 6 Free State Troops were killed and five wounded, one Republican Officer was wounded. However the Free State then sent an expedition to the North Mayo/Connemara area, which succeeded after some fighting, in capturing Michael Kilroy and many of his men at Carrowbeg House on 23 November 1922. Kilroy was badly wounded and interned at Athlone and Mountjoy where he went on Hunger Strike and would escape in late 1923 when the Civil War was over.
The Righteous Army was formed by Yu In-seok and other Confucian scholars during the Peasant Wars. Its ranks swelled after the Queen's murder by the Japanese troops and Koreans. Under the leadership of Min Jeong-sik, Choe Ik-hyeon and Shin Dol-seok, the Righteous Army attacked the Japanese army, Japanese merchants and pro-Japanese bureaucrats in the provinces of Gangwon, Chungcheong, Jeolla and Gyeongsang. Choe Ik-hyeon was captured by the Japanese and taken to Tsushima Island where he went on hunger strike and finally died in 1906.
Frank Sheehy-Skeffington managed to gain entrance and demanded votes for women before being thrown out, while Asquith's carriage was attacked by British suffragists Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans. In that attack John Redmond was injured. The British women went on hunger-strike in Mountjoy Jail, and were joined by the imprisoned Irish IWFL members in solidarity. In March 1913 a bust of John Redmond in the Royal Hibernian Academy was defaced by a suffragist protesting against the failure of the Irish Parliamentary Party to support a Women's Franchise Bill in the House of Commons.
During Al Hajj's time in captivity, Reporters Without Borders repeatedly expressed concern over his detention, mentioning Al Hajj in its annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index, and launched a petition for his release. In January 2007, Al Hajj and several other inmates went on hunger strike in protest of their treatment in Guantanamo, during which Al Hajj lost over 55 pounds. In response to the hunger strike, Al Hajj and the other inmates were force-fed. Al Hajj's hunger strike lasted 438 days until he was set free on 1 May 2008.
Isa Muazu (misspelled in some sources as Ifa Muaza) is a Nigerian man who went on hunger strike while unsuccessfully attempting to claim asylum in the United Kingdom in 2013. Isa Muazu claimed to have left his home in Nigeria because members of the proscribed Islamist group Boko Haram threatened to kill him if he did not join them. After being held in custody at the Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre in the United Kingdom, he started a hunger strike on 26 August 2013. By mid-November he was expected to die if not released.
This led to sharp reactions from the student communities in the institutes concerned and also substantial opposition from students of other colleges as well. Students gathered under the banner of "Youth For Equality" and demanded that the government roll back its decision to grant more reservations. Nearly 150 students went on hunger strike in AIIMS (Delhi) which, as on 23 May has entered into its ninth day.Quota: Striking doctors continue to go hungry Within the next few days, students from all IITs joined the protest in one form or the other.
Florence Haig stated that if she was bound over to keep the peace she would feel like a soldier deserting in the middle of battle. At her subsequent trial at the London Sessions on 19 March 1912 Boyd was sentenced to six months in Holloway Prison where she went on hunger strike but was not force-fed; she was released at the end of June 1912. She was awarded the Hunger Strike Medal by the leadership of the WSPU. To keep up morale in prison the women were forced to make their own entertainment.
The rally, which was organized by some human right groups, was joined by the opposition Republican, New Rights, Conservative, Labor and Freedom parties, as well as by those outdoor market sellers, also protested against, what they described as, 'police violence'. On May 23 a small group of activists from the Equality Institute non-governmental organization went on hunger strike and staged a protest rally central Rustaveli Avenue outside the Parliament. Overnight the Georgian Patrol Police dispersed the protesters, arresting two of them and fining them GEL 7.5 for hooliganism.
He went on hunger strike to protest against unjust trial, and lack of medical facilities. During the first hunger strike period, which lasted 14 days, he could not continue his hunger strike because of the interference of the representative of the prosecutor who was sent as an intermediary. After some time, he sent an open letter to the judicial authorities of Iran, and international artists, and again (with his brother) went on strike. After 36 days of hunger strike, he convinced Iranian judicial authorities to allow him go on a temporary treatment as on bail.
Much of the movement's energy, however, went toward working for suffrage on a state-by- state basis. In 1916 Alice Paul formed the National Woman's Party (NWP), a militant group focused on the passage of a national suffrage amendment. Over 200 NWP supporters, the Silent Sentinels, were arrested in 1917 while picketing the White House, some of whom went on hunger strike and endured forced feeding after being sent to prison. Under the leadership of Carrie Chapman Catt, the two-million-member NAWSA also made a national suffrage amendment its top priority.
Allen joined Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union, becoming an organiser in the South West, and later in Edinburgh. She was imprisoned three times in 1909 for smashing windows, including at the Inland Revenue and Liberal Club in Bristol and at the Home Office, twice went on hunger-strike, and was force-fed on the last occasion, for which she was awarded a Hunger Strike Medal ' for Valour' by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. Whilst in prison she, with others were sewing prison shirts secretly embroidered messages such as 'Votes for Women' in the shirt tails.
During the 1970s and 1980s the prison was noted for its harsh treatment meted out towards prisoners. In 1977 a number of prisoners went on hunger strike demanding a public enquiry into conditions in the prison. In 1946 Sean McCaughey refused to wear prison clothes and spent nearly five years naked except for a blanket in protest against harsh conditions. He commenced a hunger strike on 19 April 1946. After 10 days, he stopped taking water and died on 11 May, the twenty-third day of his protest.
Within days they were informed by a local priest that the rising had failed. He is believed to have accompanied Mellows into hiding in the Slieve Aughty for some months afterwards. In 1919 he was captured and imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs, and was one of a group of I.R.A. men who went on hunger strike. Early in January 1920, he was part of a group of local men (including Bill Freaney) who approached Frank Shawe-Taylor on behalf of some local people who were requesting a road to travel to Mass.
Suffragette prisoners procession, 1909 Fahey was arrested in 1909, along with twenty six other suffragette campaigners who marched from Caxton Hall, Westminster and attempted to enter the House of Commons. She was sentenced for obstruction with Constance Lytton, Daisy Soloman, Rose Lamartine Yates and Sarah Carwin, receiving one month in prison. In November 1910, she was involved in the incident known as Black Friday and arrested again for stone-throwing, being sentenced to two weeks. Both Fahey's sentences were served in Holloway Prison, where she went on hunger strike.
39 Back in Romania, Pătrășcanu was arrested and imprisoned at Jilava in 1924 (the year when the party was outlawed); he went on hunger strike until being relocated to a prison hospital. At the Kharkiv Congress of 1928, where he was present under the name Mironov,Cioroianu, p.37; Ioniță, p.45 Pătrășcanu clashed with the Comintern overseer Bohumír Šmeral, as well as with many of his fellow party members, over the issue of Bessarabia and Moldovenism, which was to be passed into a resolution stating that Greater Romania was an imperialist entity.
In March 2017, Hallam went on hunger strike to demand the university divest from fossil fuels—the institution had millions of pounds invested in fossil fuels but no investment in renewable energy. Five weeks after the first protest, the university removed £14m worth of investments from fossil fuel companies and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2025. Later in 2017, Hallam was a leading member of activist group Stop Killing Londoners an anti-pollution campaign of mass civil disobedience that they hoped would result in the arrest and imprisonment of activists.
In the gun battle, which took place close to Woolwich Fire Station, Tony Ash was shot dead by police, Ronnie Easterbrook and Gary Wilson both suffered gunshot wounds. One of the officers was wounded in the leg by shots from Easterbrook's gun. Easterbrook was sentenced to whole life imprisonment. In 1997 and 1999, Easterbrook went on hunger strike over what he believed to be a miscarriage of justice in the shooting of Tony Ash by armed officers, suggesting the armed officers who arrested him had operated a shoot-to-kill policy.
Myra Eleanor Sadd Brown in 1937 Myra Eleanor Sadd Brown (3 October 1872 - 13 April 1938) was a campaigner for women's rights, an activist and internationalist. A suffragette, she became a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1907 and, after breaking a window at the War Office in 1912 was sentenced to two months in prison with hard labour. In prison Sadd Brown went on hunger strike as a result of which she was force-fed. On her release from prison she was awarded a Hunger Strike Medal by the WSPU.
A Suffragette being force fed, in a contemporary poster On 4 March 1912 Sadd Brown was arrested for throwing a brick through a window at the War Office,Ethel threw an egg at Churchill. After 90 years, is it time she was pardoned? - The Independent for which she was sentenced to two months hard labour in Holloway Prison together with a number of other suffragettes including Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst. In prison Sadd Brown, like many other suffragists, went on hunger strike but was force-fed through rubber tubes forced down her throat.
Born in Irkutsk, Borodin was a Russian Orthodox Christian and a Soviet dissident. In the 1960s he belonged to the anti-Communist All-Russian Social-Christian Union for the Liberation of the People (VSHSON).Reference guide to Russian literature, Neil Cornwell, Nicole Christian, Taylor & Francis, 1998, p. 185 He was arrested and imprisoned in the 'strict regime' Camp 17 in 1967, and went on hunger strike there with Yuli Daniel and Aleksandr Ginzburg in 1969. After his release in 1973, Borodin’s works were smuggled out of the Soviet Union.
Singh was arrested for the first time in 1990 by Bihar Police and kept as a political prisoner in Bankipur Central Jail, Patna. After 3 years, he was released on bail. On 12 June 2003, he was again arrested in Patna by Special Task Force and was held as a political prisoner in Beur Central Jail, Patna, Jehanabad Jail and Bhagalpur Central Jail for more than 2 years. He mobilised the inmates and went on hunger strike several times against the corruption involved in Indian prisons and to fulfill the basic demands of innocent prisoners.
She was sentenced in March 1912 and she was jailed for four months during which time she went on hunger strike and was force fed. She and Sylvia Pankhurst founded the East London branch of the Women's Social and Political Union on 27 May 1913 and in the same year her mother was secretary of the Hampstead United Suffragists. The first World War started in 1914 and Bull served in the Women's Volunteer Reserve which had been founded by suffragettes to help the war effort. She married John Major Bull on 4 August 1927.
On 24 December, 40 villagers of Pungești and activists went on hunger strike. Locals have raised more tents and announced that they go on an indefinitely-long hunger strike, stating that they were tired of aggressive monitoring and surveillance of gendarmes that continually harass them and question them every time they leave the house and go through the village. Their action is a gesture of solidarity with Alexandru Popescu, a 45-year-old antiquarian from Bărcănești, Prahova County, who is on a hunger strike in Bucharest's University Square since 21 December. Two strikers needed medical attention and called an ambulance.
He took over at a time when the IRA were enjoying a resurgence and Boland was charged with the task of crushing the organisation. Although Boland had been a member of the Old IRA, he had little sympathy and took powers to order the internment of hundreds of IRA members before introducing military courts and special criminal courts. In 1940, a number of imprisoned IRA members went on hunger strike, Boland, however, refused to grant their release. Two of the men eventually died, one of whom was the nephew of one of Boland's Fianna Fáil colleagues.
'. During the 1911 Census, Carwin refused to give details of herself or the woman who shared the address at 11 Tavistock Mansions, London WC. Force feeding of women hunger strikers alt= In 1912, Carwin had her fourth and last arrest again for window breaking, causing £100 of damage to royal warrant J.C.Vickery, jewellers and dressmakers. Carwin was sentenced to six months with hard labour in Winson Green Prison. Again she went on hunger strike and was force fed, but 'resisted with her utmost strength'. This made her so ill that she was released after serving four months.
Ainsworth was with Hugh Franklin on the train that Churchill was travelling on when he challenged him on his attitude to suffragettes and caused a scene in which Franklin was arrested and went on hunger strike in prison himself . She worked at the Woman's Press shop in 1910 and was an organiser in Kent, later she left Newcastle WSPU due to split in the movement and worked for Votes for Women with National Political League. The league was started by Mary Adelaide Broadhurst and Margaret Milne Farquharson and in 1913 Ainsworth would be the NPL secretary.
In retaliation, prison authorities continued to transfer him to prisons with harsher and harsher conditions. Despite his assignment to a hard labor gang, he went on hunger strike to protest the conditions of his imprisonment in 1994. Finally Doan was placed in solitary confinement in the comparatively remote Thanh Cam prison in the country's north; in 1997, Amnesty International reported him to be under severe psychological stress as a result of his isolation. He also suffered from high blood pressure, kidney stones, and worsening eyesight throughout his jail term, worsened by a lack of medical attention and the conditions of his imprisonment.
Richard English - Armed Struggle: The History Of The IRA (Macmilian) pg.163 As the eight were led to the cells below the court, several gave raised fist salutes to relatives and friends in the public gallery, who shouted "Keep your chins up" and "All the best". The Price sisters immediately went on hunger strike, soon followed by Feeney and Kelly, for the right not to do prison work and to be repatriated to a jail in Ireland. The bombers on hunger strike were eventually moved to jails in Ireland as part of the 1975 IRA truce agreed with the British.
128 Out of parliament, on 26 April 1913 Lansbury addressed a WSPU rally at the Albert Hall, and openly defended violent methods: "Let them burn and destroy property and do anything they will, and for every leader that is taken away, let a dozen step forward in their place". For this, Lansbury was charged with incitement, convicted and, after the dismissal of an appeal, sentenced to three months' imprisonment.Shepherd 2002, pp. 131–32 He immediately went on hunger strike, and was released after four days; although liable to rearrest under the so-called "Cat and Mouse Act", he was thereafter left at liberty.
On being convicted at the London Sessions on 19 March 1912 she received a sentence of four months in Holloway Prison where she went on hunger strike and was twice force-fed.Police summons to Janie Terrero, 1 March 1912 - Museum of London Picture ArchiveEngland, Suffragettes Arrested, 1906-1914 for Jane Terrero: HO 45/24665: Suffragettes: Amnesty of August 1914: Index of Women Arrested, 1906-1914 - Ancestry.com A prison doctor ended her force-feeding, presumably because of the effect it was having on her health, and she was released a few days before the end of her sentence.
In 1921, Sohan Singh was transferred to Coimbatore jail and then to Yervada. Here however, Singh embarked on a hunger strike in protest against Sikh prisoners not being allowed to wear turbans and their Kacchera, amongst their religious obligations. In 1927, he was shifted to the Central Jail at Lahore, where he again went on hunger strike in June 1928 to protest against the segregation of the so-called low-caste Mazhabi Sikhs from other 'high-caste' Sikhs during meals. In 1929, while still interned, he went on a hunger strike in support of Bhagat Singh.
In the Cork Number One brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), he helped with prisoner escapes and returning looted goods after the burning of Cork by Black and Tans. After the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the split that followed, Barry chose the anti-Treaty branch of the IRA; he was captured by Irish Free State troops and was sent to Newbridge internment camp on the 6 October 1922. Irish Republican prisoners in Mountjoy Prison went on hunger strike, protesting against poor prison conditions and their continued detention. The strike quickly spread to other camps and prisons, and Barry took part.
He did not join any faction in parliament. Mid-November 2012, Lyashko went on hunger strike in support of jailed (fellow) opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who was imprisoned at the time, and against the recognition of the results of the 2012 parliamentary election. During the 2014 Crimean crisis, he introduced a bill which proposed to consider the participants of "separatist rallies for joining Russia" - as well as those who obstruct the movement of soldiers and military equipment - saboteurs and accomplices of the occupiers. At the time of "military aggression" to them should be applied the death penalty.
He became justice of the peace for Westminster and received a knighthood in September 1666 for his services during the Great Plague of 1665 when he had stayed in his post regardless of the circumstances. In 1669 Godfrey was briefly imprisoned for a few days because he had the King's physician, Sir Alexander Fraizer, arrested for owing him money. Samuel Pepys' diary of 26 May 1669 mentions that he went on hunger strike, claiming that the Judges had found for him, but the King, Charles II, had overridden them. He was held at the Porter's Lodge of Whitehall Palace.
Before the trial, the prisoners went on hunger strike for a week. McCool, and his co-accused, which included Peadar O'Donnell's younger brother Barney, received a sentence of six months imprisonment. which McCool served in Mountjoy Prison where he would have been a prisoner at the same time as Seán MacBride Upon his release McCool returned to IRA activity in Donegal and was the main speaker at the annual Drumboe commemoration in 1928. His period of freedom was not to last as, by May 1929, he was again arrested in Sligo and held on a ‘documents' charge while engaged in land annuity agitation.
In 1911 she was a salaried member of the Women's Tax Resistance League in London.Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, University College London Press (1999) - Google Books In November 1911 Gatty was sentenced to three weeks imprisonment in Holloway PrisonAll England, Suffragettes Arrested, 1906-1914 results for Katherine Gatty - Ancestry.com after taking part in a campaign of window smashing after the government 'torpedoed' the anticipated Conciliation Bill which was seen as a progressive step towards achieving women's suffrage. In Holloway she went on hunger strike for which action she received a Hunger Strike Medal from the leadership of the WSPU.
Davison in 1912 or 1913 Davison developed the new tactic of setting fire to postboxes in December 1911. She was arrested for arson on the postbox outside parliament and admitted to setting fire to two others. Sentenced to six months in Holloway Prison, she did not go on hunger strike at first, but the authorities required that she be force-fed between 29 February and 7 March 1912 because they considered her health and appetite to be in decline. In June she and other suffragette inmates barricaded themselves in their cells and went on hunger strike; the authorities broke down the cell doors and force-fed the strikers.
Constance Elizabeth Bryer (July 1870 - 12 July 1952) was a British classical violinist and campaigner for women's rights, an activist and suffragette who during her imprisonment in Holloway Prison went on hunger strike as a consequence of which she was force-fed. Constance Bryer was born in Islington in London in 1870,Constance Elizabeth Bryer in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 - Ancestry.com the eldest of seven children born to Thomas John Bryer (1844–1916), a woollen merchant, and Elizabeth Butler née Chadwick (1847–1937). In 1908 she was a violinist living in the family home at 49 Tufnell Park Road in London.
A suffragette is force-fed in HM Prison Holloway in the UK during hunger strikes for women's suffrage; Pendred endured this for two months. Pleasance Pendred (1864 - 29 September 1948) was a British campaigner for women's rights, an activist and suffragetteRoll of Honour of Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914 - compiled by the Suffragette Fellowship, c. 1950 - The National Archives who during her imprisonment in Holloway Prison went on hunger strike as a consequence of which she was force-fed. She was born in 1864 as Kate Pleasance Jackson in Lutterworth in Leicestershire,Kate Pleasance Jackson in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 - Ancestry.
After her arrest Ryland appeared before magistrates on 10 June 1914 for her committal hearing during which she refused to take part in the proceedings and shouted 'No surrender!' as she was taken out of court. She again went on hunger strike while held on remand. Accepting bail, Ryland was too ill to stand trial at the July Assizes after a doctor at Queen's Hospital in Birmingham stated that her attending the hearing would cause her mental condition to deteriorate and she still had not received a sentence when World War I broke out. She suffered permanent kidney damage as a result of her force-feeding in prison.
On the 25th day Meysami's hunger strike, his imprisoned friend and human rights activist, Nasrin Sotoudeh, went on hunger strike to support Meysami. Reza Khandan, husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh, published her open letter about the reasons behind her strike on his Facebook page: > Dear fellow citizens, After having arrested myself two months ago, the > agents of the ministry of the national security have now arrested our fellow > citizen Dr. Farhad Meysami. Furthermore, they have searched my house as well > as my relatives’ and friends’ houses, seeking to “discover” and confiscate > badges opposing the compulsory hijab. […] Until now, none of my > correspondence with the authorities has led to any results.
Rolph's second campaign was against Atos. On 20 May 2013, Rolph went on hunger strike against Atos and the Department for Work and Pensions who had taken away his disability benefits after an assessment. His hunger strike was in support of "the poor, the sick and disabled", and in protest against the UK coalition government’s treatment of the disabled. His benefits were restored on day 7, after intervention from his local MP. However, Rolph said he would remain on hunger strike until the government made a commitment to abolish the use of ATOS to assess disabled people, and said that the assessments were humiliating, unfair and caused distress to vulnerable people.
The Price sisters, along with Kelly and Feeney, immediately went on hunger strike in a campaign to be repatriated to a prison in Northern Ireland. IRA prisoners in Ireland at the time had Special Category Status (similar to political status), which was not granted to IRA prisoners in England and the IRA volunteers did not see themselves as criminals. The hunger strike lasted over 200 days, with the hunger strikers being force-fed by prison authorities for 167 of them. In an interview with Suzanne Breen, Price described being force- fed: > Four male prison officers tie you into the chair so tightly with sheets you > can't struggle.
In Aug 2013, the Students' Council was disbanded and the University administration; based on the directions of Supreme Court of India (which was based on recommendations from "Lyngdoh committee" section 6.2) decided to re- introduce the "Students' Union". In Oct 2014, some students went on hunger strike, demanding student union elections. Instead of union election council election dates were subsequently announced on 11 November 2014 and the process was due to be completed by 30 November 2014. However, the elections had to be cancelled and the Students' Council had to be kept on hold due to violence, arson and clashes between students and police.
The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom from 1903 to 1918. Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia (although Sylvia was eventually expelled). The WSPU membership became known for civil disobedience and direct action. It heckled politicians, held demonstrations and marches, broke the law to force arrests, broke windows in prominent buildings, set fire to post boxes, committed night-time arson of unoccupied houses and churches, and—when imprisoned—went on hunger strike and endured force-feeding.
She was among the welcoming party for another released prisoner Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, in April 1909, with the Pankhursts, two Kenney sisters, Vera Wentworth, Minnie Baldock and Mary Gawthorpe. They were taken to join 500 suffragettes at a celebration lunch at the Criterion, Picadilly Circus restaurant. Phillips was arrested later in 1909 again with Vera Wentworth and Elsie Howie for attempting to force their attendance at a men's meeting in Exeter where Lord Carrington in charge of the Agriculture and Fisheries Board was speaking. During her seven days imprisoned she went on hunger strike and was released after four days 'in a dangerous state'.
Craggs was held in remand due to the seriousness of the crime (as 8 people were in the house) and sentenced at the Assizes court in Oxford, bailed at £1000, half was provided by Ethel Smyth. Craggs was sent for 9 months with hard labour in Oxford Prison, and wrote thanking Hugh Franklin for allegedly getting photographs of the property. Craggs was moved to Holloway Prison, again went on hunger strike and was force fed five times in two days and suffered internal and external brusing for 11 days then released due to her health. Lewis Harcourt gave £1000 donation to the League for Opposing Women's Suffrage.
On the 3 April 1913 police raided the flat in Belfast Evans was sharing with local activist Midge Muir, and found explosives. In court, five days later, the pair created uproar when they demanded to know why the gun-running Ulster Unionist James Craig was not appearing on the same charges. Convicted and committed to Tullamore prison, Evans went on hunger strike. She wrote to fellow militant Kate Evans, "I am getting some mental and spiritual peace, though my body is suffering – I find I am getting ill much sooner now I am not taking water either… The cells here are darker than any I have seen".
Despite a heavy police presence suffragettes had managed to climb onto a nearby roof from where they hurled slates down at him. During court appearances, Burkitt emphasised the political motivation for her actions. On arriving in the prison van at Winson Green Prison to begin their sentences Burkitt, Mabel Capper, Mary Leigh, Charlotte Marsh, Laura Ainsworth, Ellen Barnwell, Leslie Hall and Patricia Woodlock were "singing, shewing defiance, threatened to assault prison authorities, and said they would not go in cells or undress until they were placed in the First Division". All immediately went on hunger strike and were forcibly fed, with Burkitt being the first; she would endure this for a total of 292 times between 1909 and 1914.
On 29 May 1914 Burkitt was sentenced to two years imprisonment in HM Prison Ipswich where she went on hunger strike and thirst strike and was force-fed for the entirety of her remand period before being moved to Holloway Prison.Miss Evaline Hilda Burkitt - Women's Suffrage: History and Citizenship Resources for Schools A suffragette released from Holloway at the end of July 1914 stated that Burkitt was being force-fed up to four times a day. She "suffers agonies with her nerves ... She is sick after every feeding ... Her throat is in a terrible condition." Although in good health in prison Burkitt regularly complained of chest pains at night which the prison authorities said were due to indigestion.
"Welcome to Hell": Arbitrary Detention, Torture, and Extortion in Chechnya, Human Rights Watch, October 2000 When she has arrived at Chernokozovo, the guards told her she would "never leave alive." Bitiyeva, who tried to defend other prisoners, went on hunger strike and was released in a very ill condition. Her friends helped her go to Turkey, but once her health was slightly better, she went back to Chechnya and began collecting evidence of crimes committed against civilian population of the republic, submitting it to United Nations and international human rights organizations. In February 2003, Bitiyeva had been part of the group of women that demanded the opening of a mass grave site discovered near the settlement of Kapustino.
Retrieved on 1 May 2014. On 7 May 2005 Aijo was arrested for setting off smoke bombs during the visit of George W. Bush in Latvia. Later that year Aijo was arrested and sentenced to 9 months in prison for calling to overthrow the political systemNoraida Benesa Aijo lietā iesniegto kasāciju. Delfi.lv (5 December 2005). Retrieved on 1 May 2014. and subsequently went on hunger strike in prison that lasted for 27 days until his health detoriated to the point he was brought to a hospital. After spending five and a half months in jail his security measure was changed from imprisonment to police surveillance at Aijo's request, where he cited his diabetes.
Vojislav Šešelj (, ; born 11 October 1954) is the founder and president of the Serbian nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS); he was convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). From 1998 to 2000, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia. He voluntarily surrendered to the ICTY in February 2003 but his trial did not begin until November 2007. Šešelj's trial was marred with controversy: he went on hunger strike for nearly a month until finally being allowed to represent himself, regularly insulted the judges and court prosecutors once proceedings commenced, disclosed the identities of protected witnesses and was penalized on three occasions for disrespecting the court.
While imprisoned Mackworth went on hunger strike, but was released under the 'Cat and Mouse Act'. By 1914 the non-militant elements of the suffrage movement had built up a steady presence and, although damaged by the bad press violent action brought, they also gained from the publicity. A summer school had been set up by the NUWSS in the Conwy Valley the previous year and now their members were benefitting from the training in public speaking that was given. In south Wales signs of working-class involvement in the suffrage cause took shape through the Women's Co-operative Guild, with a branch opening in Ton Pentre in the Rhondda in 1914 run by Elizabeth Andrews.
Amnesty International then began investigating and asking for information, and a video of Caro in prison was quickly released to make certain his situation known. Caro was released in the second round of political prisoners after Maduro won re-election in 2018, all of them directly transferred to hospitals. He was weak and unhealthy when he was released, having suffered from gastrointestinal and bone problems during his time incarcerated, and said that he had spent a year isolated in a cell, sometimes going a whole month without being allowed out of it. In addition, he was not allowed to see his lawyers or family, and went on hunger strike for eight days.
On appeal, his sentence was changed to three years imprisonment and three years of suspended jail and Fines.Hossein Rajabian was sent to the ward 7 of Evin Prison in Tehran. After spending one third of his total period of imprisonment (that is 11 months), he went on hunger strike to protest against unjust trial, lack of medical facilities, and transfer of his brother to another ward called section 8 of the same prison. During the first hunger strike period, which lasted 14 days, he was transferred to hospital because of pulmonary infection and he could not continue his hunger strike because of the interference of the representative of the prosecutor who was sent as an intermediary.
235 Pilots and other personnel could sometimes not get their wages for months, and on occasion resorted to desperate measures: four MiG-31 pilots at Yelizovo in the Far East went on hunger strike in 1996 to demand back pay which was several months overdue, and the problem was only resolved by diverting unit money intended for other tasks.Jeroen Brinkman, 'Russian Air Force in Turmoil,' Air Forces Monthly, No.105, December 1996, p.2, cited in Austin & Muraviev, 2000 As a result of the cutbacks, infrastructure became degraded as well, and in 1998, 40% of military airfields needed repair. The VVS participated in the First Chechen War (1994–1996) and the Second Chechen War (1999–2002).
On the other hand, some conservatives inside the church speculated that the strained relationship between Beijing and the Holy See will become more relaxed if Zen retires. Nonetheless, Zen wrote a letter to the Pope on 13 January 2006 and stated that he did want to retire from his position, though not because of his age. On 15 April 2009 Pope Benedict accepted Cardinal Zen's resignation and John Tong Hon became the Bishop of the diocese. From 22 October 2011 for three days Cardinal Zen went on hunger strike which was undertaken as an act of protest against losing a long-standing legal battle with the Hong Kong government over how aided schools should be run.
S. Taylor, The National Front in English Politics, London: Macmillan, 1982, p. 162 Having gained notoriety Relf continued to perform publicity stunts, notably in September 1978 when he was handed a £10 fine for refusing to wear a motorcycle helmet in protest at the legal exemption from the requirement for Sikhs.Taylor, op cit Relf was jailed soon afterwards for publishing racial hatred materials, and immediately went on hunger strike, sparking another NF led campaign for his release.taylor, op cit He helped to set up White Nationalist Crusade, an attempt to create an umbrella movement for the far right in Britain, although this proved unsuccessful and he briefly led his own White Power Movement the following year.
Helen Crawfurd Anderson was imprisoned in Duke Street Prison in March 1914 after breaking two windows of the Army Recruiting Office in Gallowgate, as a protest against the arrest two days previously of Mrs Pankhurst. Helen was sentenced to ten days in prison but went on hunger strike and was released after eight days under the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913. She was then rearrested and returned to prison, but again released, in a very weak physical condition, after a second hunger strike. Members of the Women's Social and Political Union gathered at the prison gates and were noted as picketing the prison day and night during her incarceration.
Aminatou Haidar with friends in Lemleihess (Western Sahara), after her release from prison (18 January 2006) On 17 June 2005, Haidar was attacked by police on her way to a demonstration in El Aaiún for the Western Sahara Independence Intifada. After admission to Belmehdi Hasan hospital and receiving twelve stitches for a head injury, she was arrested on charges of "participation in violent protest activities and incitement" and "belonging to an unauthorized association". She was then held in El Aaiún's Black Prison. She reportedly went on hunger strike from 8 August to 29 September to demand an investigation into torture allegations by fellow Saharawi detainees Houssein Lidri and Brahim Noumria as well as improved conditions of detention.
' Davies's sentence was three months and she went on hunger strike. Whilst she was away the Liverpool WSPU continued and members praised Patricia Woodlock as a public speaker, the temporary branch organiser. In recognition of Davies suffering in prison, the WSPU awarded her a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' designed by Christabel Pankhurst, with the ribbon in the colours of the movement - green, white and purple, representing 'hope, purity and dignity' and dated 4 March 1912. The presentation box was inscribed > ALICE DAVIES - BY THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL & POLITICAL UNION IN RECOGNITION OF A > GALLANT ACTION, WHEREBY THROUGH ENDURANCE TO THE LAST EXTREMITY OF HUNGER > AND HARDSHIP, A GREAT PRINCIPLE OF POLITICAL JUSTICE WAS VINDICATED.
Metge was a suspect, due to her known militant position, and also as the women's footprints had made a muddy trail straight to the rear of Metge's house. Metge and her co-conspirators were arrested at 8 am the next day, but had to have police protection as they were taken into custody, as bottles, stones and mud was thrown and the house windows were broken. Any local sympathy was further lost when the government stated they would raise local (tax) rates to cover the cost of repairing the Cathedral's damage. Lillian Metge's Hunger Strike Medal 1914 Metge and the others were taken to Crumlin Road Prison and went on hunger strike.
Yet, despite the regular Stasi- interrogations and an order that prevented her from earning a living almost entirely, she continued to commit herself to political change in the GDR. She went on hunger strike at the Thomas-church Leipzig and criticised the constitutional capacity of the SED directly and openly. Referring to Vaclav Havel she called for the 'bond-slaves' in a system of paternalism' to 'renounce resignation in the society': 'We pray for wisdom and courage, so that what is limited to narrowness and prison for so many may become our home country again'. On 4 September 1989 she initiated, together with Gesine Oltmanns, a demonstration in front of the Nikolaichurch, after the Monday Peace Prayer held there.
Jatupat was arrested alongside other members of the Dao Din Group in 22 May 2015 and detained; he was later released pending an investigation. On 6 August, 2016, he was arrested for distributing flyers protesting the new draft charter, which was being put to a referendum, under Article 61(2) of the Referendum Act, which effectively penalised campaigning against the Charter. He went on hunger strike and was released on bail. On 22 May 2017, for violating the NCPO Head’s Order No. 3/2015 for participating in a gathering of over five people on 22 May 2015 to commemorate the May 2014 coup d’état, Jatupat was taken to the Military Court of Khon Kaen Province for trial together with seven other democracy activists.
Emily Davison wearing her medal of courage, 1910–1912 Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race. Davison grew up in a middle-class family, and studied at Royal Holloway College, London, and St Hugh's College, Oxford, before taking jobs as a teacher and governess.
She again went on hunger strike and was released after two and a half days. She subsequently wrote to The Manchester Guardian to justify her action of throwing stones as one "which was meant as a warning to the general public of the personal risk they run in future if they go to Cabinet Ministers' meetings anywhere". She went on to write that this was justified because of the "unconstitutional action of Cabinet Ministers in addressing 'public meetings' from which a large section of the public is excluded". Davison was arrested again in early October 1909, while preparing to throw a stone at the cabinet minister Sir Walter Runciman; she acted in the mistaken belief the car in which he travelled contained Lloyd George.
Al-Hashimi was arrested in Jeddah in February 2007 along with eight other critics of the Saudi Arabian government (Musa al-Qirni, Suliaman al-Rashudi, Abdul Rahman Khan, Essam Basrawi, Saif al-Din al-Sharif, Fahd al- Qurshi, Abdul Rahman al-Shumayri) and who planned to form a political party or human rights organization. The men were detained without charge until August 2010. During his pre-trial detention, al-Hashimi went on hunger strike for a week, which reportedly caused his guards to strip him down to his underwear and leave him in a cold cell for several hours. He was then forced to confess to "contacting Al-Jazeera television station and to collecting money without the permission of the ruler".
Sanders worked closely with Sylvia Pankhurst, and was imprisoned for her activities on multiple occasions. On one occasion, she was sentenced to fourteen months for taking part in the events at the House of Commons in February 1907, and for a month for throwing stones on Black Friday in November 2010. By 1913, as financial secretary of the Women's Social and Political Union, she was arrested with Harriet Kerr after a struggle with police which was front-page news in The Suffragette, when the premises at Clement's Inn was raided, the sentence was fifteen days. She went on hunger strike and was temporarily released under the terms of the Cat and Mouse Act, and although her sentence was never annulled, she was not re-arrested.
She added that she had believed that the pavilion belonged to the Crown, and that she wished for the two women who actually owned it to understand that she was fighting a war, and that in a war even men combatants had to suffer. When Wharry was sentenced to eighteen months with costs, refusing to pay she cried out "I will refuse to do so. You can send me to prison, but I will never pay the costs".'Girl Suffragette to Jail As Firebug; Takes Eighteen Months' Sentence for Kew Outrage as a Good Joke' The New York Times 8 March 1913 In prison Wharry went on hunger strike for 32 days, passing her food to other prisoners, apparently unnoticed by the warders.'Mrs.
Ball's arrest and imprisonment in December 1911, was for breaking two panes of the Home Office windows in protest at the jailing of another man, Alan MacDougall who had supported the suffragettes attending political meetings. Ball also was against the Manhood Suffrage Bill which 'would bar the passage of a measure for votes for women'.Force feeding similar to that used on William Ball A first offence, but with a sentence of two months at Pentonville prison, Ball was denied the rights to wear his own clothes, like the women suffragettes at the same time. He refused prison clothing and went on hunger strike, was force-fed for the first time on Christmas Day and then twice daily for 37 days.
Moorhead, who used a number of aliases, gave her name as 'Margaret Morrison'. Moorhead used her shoe to smash three cell windows, and knocked the prison governor's hat off his head when he refused to remove it despite being in the presence of a lady. Moorhead wrote a letter to the prison commissioners, claiming that she and other suffragette prisoners were not being treated as political prisoners, and both women went on hunger strike. Ethel Moorhead was released on bail and Dorothea Smith was released under the under the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913, better known as the Cat and Mouse Act, on 29 July 2913 with a return date of 5 August 1913, but she did not return by that date.
In 1912 Ryland was sentenced to six months in Winson Green Prison - seen here in the 1920s In November 1911 Bertha Ryland was sentenced at Bow Street Magistrates' CourtArrests of Bertha Ryland - England, Suffragettes Arrested, 1906-1914 for Bertha Ryland, HO 45/24665: Suffragettes: Amnesty of August 1914: Index of Women Arrested, 1906-1914 - Ancestry.com to a week's imprisonment in Holloway Prison. After taking part in the window-smashing campaign on Bond Street in London in March 1912 she was sentenced at the London Sessions to six months’ imprisonment, serving four months in Winson Green Prison where she was strip-searched and went on hunger strike and was force-fed 14 times, for which she received the Hunger Strike Medal from the WSPU. Her treatment caused permanent damage to her kidney.
"Omar Bongo renouvelle son mandat", la-croix.com, 23 November 2005 . Ratanga briefly went on hunger strike in December 2005 to protest his inability to obtain a passport from the government, which would enable him to visit his family living abroad. The Directorate-General of Emigration and Immigration promptly issued him an ordinary passport, and although he still did not receive a diplomatic passport from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the issuing of an ordinary passport was sufficient for him to end his hunger strike.""Affaire Ratanga": L'ambassadeur retraité a reçu un passeport ordinaire jeudi", L'Union, 28 December 2005 . President Omar Bongo appointed Ratanga, who was still serving as the Secretary-General of the UGDD, to the government as Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation on 14 January 2009.
5 Kanal (; ) is a television station in Ukraine owned by businessman and former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.Poroshenko is not going to sell Channel 5 TV, Kyiv Post (May 23, 2010) The channel became well known as the first major broadcaster during the 2004 presidential election offering critical broadcasting on candidate Viktor Yanukovych. The whole staff of the channel went on hunger strike when (at the time, late 2004) the government threatened to close it.Russia, the US, “the Others” and the “101 Things to Do to Win a (Colour)Revolution”: Reflections on Georgia and Ukraine by Abel Polese, Routledge (26 October 2011) According to the Ukrainian media watchdog Telekrytyka Kanal 5 and TVi were the only remaining TV channels mid-May 2010 with independent and fair TV news coverage.
Zhang disappeared from public view in 1995 in light of increased criticism of Zhong Gong. Zhang together with his associate and companion, Yan Qingxin, arrived in the American protectorate of Guam in February 2000 without a visa, and applied for political asylum in the United States. While awaiting transfer to the US, Zhang went on hunger strike to press for his release from detention in Guam; several overseas Chinese dissident organizations—including the Free China Movement, the Chinese Democracy Party and the Joint Conference of Chinese Overseas Democracy Movement—organizing a press conference to support his cause. Zhang was denied asylum by the United States, but was granted wrongful withholding, which prevented repatriation to China. After 13 months in detention in Guam, he secured the services of Robert Shapiro, who defended O.J. Simpson.
Volume 37. H.M. Stationery Office 1912. p. 1473. In common with several suffragettes who were imprisoned at the same time, Helen went on hunger strike as a protest at not being regarded as a political prisoner. On her release from Holloway prison she received the Hunger Strike Medal and "a large number of members of the Women's Social and Political Union and others" attended the Meeting at Barnet on 1 May 1912 "to welcome Miss Madge Spanton after her two month’s imprisonment in Holloway" and to hear Miss Spanton’s "excellent speech".Votes for Women 10 May 1912. p.13. Imprisoned a few days before Helen Spanton was her suffragette friend and relative Katie Edith Gliddon, who had also been a student at The Slade (from 1902), and was arrested for breaking a Post Office window.
Andrey Trapeznikov, member of the RAO UES board, said "Should Kvachkov agree to be nominated, it would be an illustrative indicator that he feels his guilt and tries to avoid responsibility by using deputy's credentials" Kvachkov was not registered as a candidate by the regional Electoral Commission. Protesting this decision, Kvachkov's devoted sidekicks Naydenov and Yashin went on hunger strike in their prison. By the beginning of the elections, detention term for Kvachkov as well as for his alleged accomplices had been extended until 18 December, to pitch him out from the race. Another applicant for the elections, Communist Party member Yelena Lukyanova, a law professor at Moscow State University and the daughter of top-ranked Soviet aparatchik Anatoly Lukyanov, withdrew from the race, even though Rodina and the Union of Right Forces had considered backing her bid.
On November 28, 2013, the UNWGAD had ruled in favor of activists convicted during the same time with Minh Mẫn, stating that Vietnam violated its international human rights obligations and must “immediate[ly] release” the prisoners of conscience. A year later, while Nguyễn Đặng Minh Mẫn faced near-solitary confinement and went on hunger strike against prison abuse, students of the Freedom of Expression Law Clinic submitted a petition in November 2014 on Minh Mẫn's behalf to the UN Working Group On Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD). This petition raises awareness about the Vietnamese government's violation of its international commitments to human rights. On June 11, 2015, her father Nguyễn Văn Lợi spoke at the Vietnamese Congressional Caucus in the US Capitol Building to raise awareness about the struggles his daughter and other prisoners of conscience must endure while in prison.
In August 2010, Goudarzi joined Majid Tavakoli and other imprisoned activists in a hunger strike to protest conditions in Evin prison, where they were detained. In retaliation Goudarzi, Tavakoli and other journalists who had launched a hunger strike were transferred to solitary confinement. Goudarzi and Tavakoli were among 17 political prisoners who went on hunger strike. After his transfer to solitary confinement in May 2010, Goudarzi's mother said that she was no longer allowed to see him. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a statement on June 12, 2010 demanded the release of Goudarzi and other incarcerated activists in Iran stating, “The Iranian authorities responded to their citizens’ call for accountability and transparency with violence, arbitrary detentions, dubious trials, and intimidation.” She called for "the immediate release of all imprisoned human rights defenders," naming Goudarzi and six other jailed activists.
Appointed president, she denounced what she sees as the "systematic torture" practiced in her country since the accession to power of President Ben Ali 7 November 1987. Due to her professional activities in favor of human rights in Tunisia, Radhia Nasraoui continued to be exposed to repression and police brutality. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women reported: From 15 October to 10 December 2003, she went on hunger strike "to protest against government agents' burglarizing of her office and terrorizing her family and to demand that justice should be done after a physical assault suffered in July" she put an end to the strike on the day of the commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Radhia Nasraoui continued to be exposed to state repression until the revolution of 2011 marked the fall of President Ben Ali.
On 28 March 2014 a foreign national, with limited English arrived in Ireland. She claimed to have been raped in her home country. She discovered she was pregnant on 4 April, when she arrived in Ireland, and she sought an abortion. On 1 July 2014, she attempted to travel to the UK via ferry, but was arrested upon arrival for illegally entering the UK. She said that she felt suicidal, and the two psychiatrists on the panel decreed that she indeed was suicidal but that her pregnancy had proceeded to the point of viability, so that she could not access lawful abortion under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013.Máiréad Enright & de Londras, “‘Empty Without and Empty Within’: The Unworkability of the Eighth Amendment after Savita Halappanavar and Miss Y” (2014) 20(2) Medico-Legal Journal of Ireland 85 She then went on hunger strike.
In May 1980, one day before Thatcher was due to meet the Irish Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, to discuss Northern Ireland, she announced in Parliament that "the future of the constitutional affairs of Northern Ireland is a matter for the people of Northern Ireland, this government, this parliament, ". In 1981, a number of Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison (also known in Northern Ireland as Long Kesh, its previous official name) went on hunger strike to regain the status of political prisoners, which had been revoked five years earlier under the preceding Labour government. Bobby Sands, the first of the strikers, was elected as a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone a few weeks before he died of starvation. Thatcher refused to countenance a return to political status for republican prisoners, famously declaring "Crime is crime is crime; it is not political".
In August 1909, she hid with Adela Pankhurst, Alice Paul and Margaret Smith on the roof of the St Andrew's Hall in Glasgow she planned to break through the roof and disrupt a political speech by the Earl of Crewe in front of an all-male audience. Burns was again with Alice Paul and Edith New and other suffragettes in Dundee trying to enter a political meeting of Herbert Samuel, MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, unable to gain access Burns then broke police station windows and got a ten-day sentence, where she and others went on hunger strike, damaged the cells and refused to do prison work. Burns and Paul were involved in a stunt at the London Lord Mayor's Ball, mingling with guests then approaching Winston Churchill with a hidden banner shouting "How can you dine here while women are starving in prison?" Again this resulted in prison, self-starving and force feeding.
Fainberg was examined by the Serbsky Institute commission composed of G.V. Morozov, D.R. Lunts and Y.L. Lindau. In their act No 35 / s dated October 10, 1968, they did not mention the invasion of Czechoslovakia, which gave rise to this demonstration, the action was merely described as 'disorderly conduct at Red Square,' and Fainberg's mental condition was described as follows: (The Russian text of the book in full is available online on the website of the organization "Help for Psychiatric Survivors") As a result, he was committed for compulsory treatment to the Special Psychiatric Hospital in Leningrad where he was confined from January 1969 to February 1973. At the hospital, Fainberg went on hunger strike in protest, was subjected to forced feeding and was treated with chlorpromazine despite his hyperthyroidism that was somatic contraindication to chlorpromazine therapy. Marina Vaykhanskaya, a psychiatrist at the hospital, assisted Fainberg by passing information about him to dissidents outside.
Upon imprisonment in England, Kelly, and the other prisoners went on hunger strike demanding political prisoner status and to be transferred to prisons in Northern Ireland. After 60 days on hunger strike, during which he subsequently alleged he was force-fed by prison officers, Kelly was transferred to HMP Maze prison in Northern Ireland in April 1975. Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, the Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary by Robert White (), page 235 While imprisoned in the Maze, Kelly again went on protest and made a number of escape attempts in 1977, 1982 and 1983. On 25 September 1983, Kelly was involved in the Maze Prison escape, the largest break-out of prisoners in Europe since World War II and in UK prison history. Kelly, along with 37 other republican prisoners, armed with six hand-guns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of the Maze past 40 prison warders and 28 alarm systems.
Born to a coal merchant and shipping agent, Edward Downing, and one of four siblings, Caroline Lowder Downing, became a trained nurse, and in 1908 joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Chelsea Branch, with her sister Edith Elizabeth Downing, an artist, and both became militant suffragettes. window damaged by suffragettes March 1912 Downing took part in the window smashing on 1 March 1912, causing £50 of damage, imprisoned in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, went on hunger strike and was force fed. Describing experiences of fellow sufferers of that painful treatment, Downing's activism and its resultant convictions were also duly reported in the WSPU newspaper Votes for Women, for example: On 28 November 1911: 'Miss Caroline Downing was charged with trying to break through the police cordon at Palace Yard. She said that it was a purely political action, in face of Mr. Asquith’s broken pledge and the insult he put upon women by bringing in a Manhood Suffrage Bill in response to women’s demand.
For decades, British campaigners had argued for votes for women. It was only when a number of suffragists, despairing of change through peaceful means, decided to turn to militant protest that the "suffragette" was born. These women broke the law in pursuit of their aims, and many were imprisoned at Holloway, where they were treated as common criminals, not political prisoners. In protest, some went on hunger strike and were force fed so Holloway has a large symbolic role in the history of women's rights in the UK. Suffragettes imprisoned there include Emmeline Pankhurst, Emily Davison, Constance Markievicz, Violet Mary Doudney, Katie Edith Gliddon, Isabella Potbury, Evaline Hilda Burkitt, Georgina Fanny Cheffins, Constance Bryer, Florence Tunks, Janie Terrero, Doreen Allen, Bertha Ryland, Katharine Gatty, Charlotte Despard, Janet Boyd, Genie Sheppard, Mary Ann Aldham, Mary Richardson, Alice Maud Shipley, Katherine Douglas Smith, Dora Montefiore, Christabel Pankhurst, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Leonora Tyson and Ethel Smyth.
120 McLaughlin quickly rejected this notion and made it clear that Jordan's time was over, resulting in the former leader retiring to Yorkshire from where he still published his own journal Gothic Ripples from time to time, the pages of which were regularly filled with criticism of McLaughlin. McLaughlin, in contrast to Jordan, was under no delusions that the BM might gain a broad following and instead he felt that its best area of possible support was amongst young, working-class males. The BM journals, The Phoenix and British Patriot, thus changed to become much more simplistic and aggressive publications largely shorn of Jordan's pseudoscientific racialism in favour of more basic notions.R. Hill & A. Bell, The Other Face of Terror, p. 121 The BM had also gained some publicity in 1976 when "race martyr" and sometime party activist Robert Relf went on hunger strike in protest at the Race Relations Bill but this proved short-lived as Tyndall quickly signed Relf up to the NF.Walker, The National Front, p.
On December 1, 2012 V.Kolesnikov, sentenced to 10 years in prison for a homicide, was transferred from CF #38 (Lugansk oblast’) to psycho-neurological ward of the oblast’ hospital under Lugansk investigation isolation center. The transfer was the result of the dry hunger strike announced by the prisoner as a mean of protest against administration which has detained his cassation appeal, which, according to him, he could not send out for the whole term of his stay in PTIC: “I, Kolesnikov Vladimir Fedorovych, refuse to undergo medical treatment as I do not consider myself sick. Refusal to eat is an extreme measure in my attempts to have a Cassation Court hearing”. A client of KhHRG V.Nechyporenko held in custody in Sumy PTIC went on hunger strike because the letters he received from the ECHR were not delivered to him; his power of attorney was not sent out and he was subject to forced treatment. The prisoners often complain that the staff of the SPSU facilities often hinder their correspondence, especially, when it contains the prisoners’ complaints referring to administrations’’s actions or lack of thereof.
On her return home she met members of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and by her mid 30s Evans was an active member of the WSPU and became a suffragette, to the disappointment of her parents. In March 1912 she was arrested for "malicious damage" for breaking the windows of government offices in London along with other suffragettes, including Caroline Lowder Downing and Edith Downing, for which she was sentenced to 54 days hard labour in Holloway Prison where she went on hunger strike leading her to being awarded the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal and Holloway brooch on her release from prison. Her Hunger Strike Medal has two silver bars, one of which is engraved '4 March 1912'. In August 1913 chaired a meeting of the Women's Freedom League (WFL) in Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain where she gave an address on the differences between the Women's Social and Political Union and the WFL in terms of policy and militancy; it has been conjectured that after her experiences in Holloway Prison that she may have left the WSPU to join the less militant WFL.

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