List of hunger strikes
This is an incomplete list of hunger strikes and people who have conducted a hunger strike.
Hunger strikes
- 1929 hunger strike
- Bhagat singh
- BK Dutt
- and all other members of HSRA
- 1980 Irish hunger strike
- 1981 Irish hunger strike
- 1983 International Fast For Life (thousands fasted against nuclear armament and world hunger)
- 1986 Veterans Fast For Life (against U.S. policies in Central America)
- 2000 Death fast in Turkey
- 2009 Tamil diaspora protests
- 2012 Palestinian mass hunger strikes
- Mustafa Kocak
- 2012 Kurdish prisoners hunger strike
- 2013 California prisoner hunger strike
- 2019 hunger strike by South Korean opposition party leader Hwang Kyo-ahn calling for renewal of GSOMIA intel-sharing pact with Japan, as well as stopping National Assembly bills intended to introduce electoral reform and an anti-corruption taskforce[1][2][3]
Groups who have conducted hunger strikes
- British and American suffragettes
- Cuban dissidents
- Guillermo Fariñas
- Pedro Luis Boitel
- Jorge Luis García Pérez
- Orlando Zapata Tamayo
- Grup Yorum
- Irish republicans
- Indian Independence Movement
- Jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders
- Jordi Sánchez
- Jordi Turull
- Joaquim Forn
- Josep Rull
- Kurdish Politicians
- South Korean politicians
- Hwang Kyo-ahn of Liberty Korea Party
- Sohn Hak-kyu of the Bareunmirae Party
- Lee Jeong-mi of the Justice Party
- Kim Sung-tae of Liberty Korea Party
Individuals who have conducted a hunger strike
- Philippe Vandenberghe, victim of the 2016 Brussels bombings
- 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, 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 https://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-longest-hunger-strike/
- Jatindra Nath Das Indian independence activist and revolutionary
- Andrey Derevyankin
- Katherine Dunham
- Ronald Easterbrook England, prisoner, 1997, 1999.
- Becky Edelsohn
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Akbar Ganji
- Andrias Ghukasyan
- Max Goldstein
- Lena Hades
- Anna Hazare
- J. B. S. Haldane
- Barry Horne
- Samer Tariq Issawi
- Lucy, Lady Houston
- 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
- Kostas Sakkas
- Nigamananda Saraswati
- Jaume Sastre i Font, Catalan teacher in Mallorca
- Nadiya Savchenko, Ukrainian volunteer 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
- Shahrokh Zamani, Iranian Labour Activist, Died 2015 in Islamic Republic of Iran's prison
- Govinda K.C.
- Hwang Kyo-ahn
References
- "[Photo] LKP leader holds hunger strike to protest Moon administration". 21 November 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- "Main Opposition Chief Continues Hunger Strike for 4th Day". 23 November 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- Choi, Si-young (20 November 2019). "Liberty Korea Party chairman starts hunger strike". Retrieved 24 November 2019.
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