Category:Hunger strikes

This is the category for hunger strikes, a form of protest in which participants starve themselves.

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• 1 July 2015: Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan stops hunger strike, due to be released
• 12 June 2014: Mahmoud Abbas asks UN urgently attend to hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners
• 13 March 2014: Guantanamo inmate challenges force-feeding practices by suing U.S. president
• 26 December 2013: Palestinian released from Israeli prison following eight-month hunger strike
• 3 May 2013: President Obama renews his push to close Guantanamo detention facility
• 7 April 2013: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: close Guantanamo Bay
• 9 May 2012: Former Ukraine PM Yulia Tymoshenko to end hunger strike, daughter announces
• 25 April 2012: Former Ukranian PM Yulia Tymoshenko goes on hunger strike
• 25 January 2012: One year on: Egyptians mark anniversary of protests that toppled Mubarak
• 8 August 2011: Bill to eliminate corruption does not go far enough, say Indian activists and lawyers

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a hunger striker receiving medical attention in Berlin