List of hunger strikes
This is an incomplete list of hunger strikes and people who have conducted a hunger strike.
Hunger strikes
- Guantánamo Bay hunger strikes – Prisoner protests at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a notorious U.S. military prison known for indefinite detention without trial and torture, during the War on terror
- 1980 Irish hunger strike – Protest by Irish republican prisoners from Northern Ireland against the rescindment of Special Category Status during The Troubles
- 1981 Irish hunger strike – ended with 10 of the participants starving themselves to death, radicalizing Irish nationalist politics and leading to Sinn Féin becoming a mainstream political party.
- Michael Devine
- Kieran Doherty
- Francis Hughes[1]
- Martin Hurson[2]
- Kevin Lynch
- Raymond McCreesh[1]
- Joe McDonnell
- Thomas McElwee
- Patsy O'Hara[3]
- Paddy Quinn[4]
- Bobby Sands[5] – leader of the hunger strike; elected to the House of Commons during the strike before his death
- 1983 International Fast For Life (thousands fasted against nuclear armament and world hunger) – Protest against President Ronald Reagan's increased defense spending and the escalation of the Cold War nuclear arms race
- 1986 Veterans Fast For Life – Protest against the Reagan administration's support for the Contra insurgency in Sandinista Nicaragua
- 2000 Death fast in Turkey – Protest by inmates of Turkish F-Type Prisons
- 2009 Tamil diaspora protests – Worldwide protest against the Sri Lankan Civil War
- 2012 Palestinian mass hunger strikes – Protest by Palestinian prisoners against Israeli administrative detention
- Mustafa Kocak – Starved himself to death in protest of his sentencing without a fair trial
- 2012 Kurdish prisoners hunger strike – Part of Peace and Democracy Party demonstrations against Turkish restrictions on Kurdish civil rights during the Kurdish–Turkish conflict and the Arab Spring
- 2013 California prisoner hunger strike – Protest against indefinite solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison and for better conditions at High Desert State Prison.
Groups who have conducted hunger strikes
Individuals who have conducted a hunger strike
- Maher al-Akhras, Palestinian
- Meryem Altun, Turkey, prisoner, 2002. Died.
- Ninoy Aquino
- Stanislav Aseyev, Ukrainian writer and journalist. Kidnapped by militants from so-called Donetsk People's Republic.
- Marwan Barghouti
- Chen Shui Bian, President of the Republic of China
- Franklin Brito, Venezuela, land dispute, 2010. Died.
- Emil Calmanovici, Communist Romania, political prisoner, 1956. Died.
- Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers union, Arizona, 1968, 1970, 1972.
- William (Bill) Coleman (British Citizen), 2007 to 2014 in CT, USA [8]
- Jatindra Nath Das Indian independence activist and revolutionary
- Andrey Derevyankin
- Katherine Dunham
- Ronald Easterbrook England, prisoner, 1997, 1999.
- Becky Edelsohn
- Mohandas Gandhi – Indian independence activist, part of campaign of nonviolent resistance to British rule in India
- Akbar Ganji
- Kasra Nouri
- Andrias Ghukasyan
- Max Goldstein
- Lena Hades
- Anna Hazare
- J. B. S. Haldane
- Barry Horne
- Samer Tariq Issawi
- Poopathy Kanapathipillai
- Jack Kevorkian
- Jüri Kukk
- Jean Lassalle
- Antonio Ledezma, Venezuelan politician, 2009
- Gloria Lee
- Ly Tong
- Haia Lifşiţ
- Anatoly Marchenko
- Holger Meins
- Akbar Mohammadi
- Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician and cleric, 1983
- Tony Nicklinson
- Jock Palfreeman
- Vasudev Balwant Phadke
- Darshan Singh Pheruman
- Kemal Pir
- Muhammad al-Qiq
- Mahmudur Rahman, Bangladeshi news editor
- Militão Ribeiro
- Randall Robinson
- George Rolph
- Hoda Saber
- Arash Sadeghi
- Andrei Sakharov[9]
- Kostas Sakkas
- Nigamananda Saraswati – Protest against illegal mining in the Ganges River
- Jaume Sastre i Font, Catalan teacher in Mallorca
- Nadiya Savchenko, Ukrainian Ground Forces helicopter pilot, kidnapped and detained in Russian prison, 2015 and 2016.
- Oleg Sentsov, Ukrainian filmmaker and writer
- Irom Sharmila
- Bhagat Singh Indian socialist revolutionary
- Surat Singh Khalsa, Sikh Activist
- Mohamed Soltan, Egyptian opposition activist, 2014
- Theresa Spence
- Potti Sreeramulu
- Thileepan (Rasaiah Parthipan)
- Judith Todd
- Sergey Udaltsov, Russian opposition activist, 2011 and 2014
- Lluís Maria Xirinacs, Catalan politician, writer, and religious leader
- Lin Yi-hsiung – Protest against the construction of the Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City
- Shahrokh Zamani, Iranian Labour Activist, Died 2015 in Islamic Republic of Iran's prison
- Govinda K.C.
- Ebru Timtik
References
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- "Crucifix given by Pope John Paul IIto Patsy O'Hara in Derry museum". www.derryjournal.com. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- Borders, William; Times, Special To the New York (1981-08-02). "I.R.A. UNSHAKEN BY DECISION ON FAST (Published 1981)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- "On This Day: Bobby Sands, Long Kesh hunger striker, passes away". IrishCentral.com. 2020-09-11. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
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- "Four Catalan leaders facing trial in Spain go on hunger strike". the Guardian. 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
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