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A hunger strike is a method of non ... a total of 22 Irish republicans died on hunger strike with survivors suffering long-term health and psychological effects.
The 1992 Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike was a widespread hunger strike undertaken by Palestinians in Israeli custody in the autumn of 1992. One Palestinian prisoner died as a result of the hunger strike, while several Palestinian were killed and several hundred injured by Israeli forces in demonstrations in support of the prisoners.
A hunger strike memorial near Crossmaglen, County Armagh. A memorial to the men who died in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the Easter Rising, and the hunger strike stands in Waverley Cemetery, Sydney, Australia, which is also the burial place of Michael Dwyer of the Society of United Irishmen. [277]
The Ford Hunger March, sometimes called the Ford Massacre, was a demonstration on March 7, 1932 in the United States by unemployed auto workers in Detroit, Michigan, which took place during the height of the Great Depression.
An image of Idaho Maximum Security Institution’s C Block, where civil commitment patients are held. In May, at least 90 men housed in the prison participated in a hunger strike.
This hunger strike drew worldwide attention and sympathy to the cause of Irish independence. [6] The nine survivors of the 1920 Cork hunger strike hold the Guinness World Record for the longest hunger strike in history, in which no food was consumed, whether as a result of force-feeding or otherwise. [7]
DUBAI/OSLO (Reuters) -Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike on Monday in protest against what she said was the jail's failure to give her access to ...
Seán McCaughey was the last person to die on hunger strike in the Irish state. [17] There is a long history of hunger striking in Ireland - within the 20th century a total of 22 Irish republicans died on hunger strike with survivors suffering long-term health and psychological effects.