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This is an incomplete list of recent hunger strikes and people who have conducted a hunger strike.
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Hunger strikes
- 1923 Irish hunger strikes – thousands of Irish Republican prisoners demand release. Includes info on 1920 Mountjoy and Cork hunger strikes. Six deaths.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 2009 Tamil diaspora protests – Worldwide protest against the Sri Lankan Civil War
- 2009 Venezuelan student hunger strike – Nationwide hunger strike by students asking a visit to Venezuela by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- 2012 Palestinian mass hunger strikes – Protest by Palestinian prisoners against Israeli administrative detention
- 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.
- 2024 Starve until you are honest – a climate hunger strike in Berlin, Germany involving six strikers
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Groups who have conducted hunger strikes
- British and American suffragettes
- Cuban dissidents
- Grup Yorum[2]
- Irish republicans all died while on hunger strike.
- Thomas Ashe (1917)
- Terence MacSwiney (1920 Cork hunger strike)
- Michael Fitzgerald (1920 Cork hunger strike)
- Joe Murphy (1920 Cork hunger strike)
- Denny Barry (1923 Irish hunger strikes)
- Andy O'Sullivan (1923 Irish hunger strikes)
- Joseph Whitty (1923 Irish hunger strikes)
- Tony D'Arcy (1940)
- Jack McNeela (1940)
- Seán McCaughey (1946)
- Michael Gaughan (1974)
- Frank Stagg (1976)
- Michael Devine (1981)
- Kieran Doherty (1981) - while on hunger strike was elected to the Republic of Irelands Dáil Éireann, representing the Cavan–Monaghan constituency.
- Francis Hughes (1981)[3]
- Martin Hurson (1981)[4]
- Kevin Lynch (1981)
- Raymond McCreesh (1981)[3]
- Joe McDonnell (1981)
- Thomas McElwee (1981)
- Patsy O'Hara (1981) [5]
- Bobby Sands (1981) [6] – leader of the hunger strike; elected to the House of Commons during the strike before his death.
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Individuals who have conducted a hunger strike
- Alaa Abdelfattah, Egyptian
- Maher al-Akhras, Palestinian
- Meryem Altun, Turkish prisoner
- Ninoy Aquino
- Stanislav Aseyev, Ukrainian writer and journalist, kidnapped by militants from so-called Donetsk People's Republic
- Lorraine Badoy and Jeffrey Celiz, SMNI news anchors, television franchise probe, 2023[11]
- Igor Bancer, Polish Belarusian musician, activist, journalist, worker, and events organiser
- 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, 2007 to 2014 in CT, USA [12]
- Alfredo Cospito, Italian anarchist prisoner who started a hunger strike on 20 October 2022 against the 41-bis prison regime
- Jatindra Nath Das, Indian independence activist and revolutionary
- Andrey Derevyankin
- Katherine Dunham
- Ronald Easterbrook, England, prisoner, 1997, 1999
- Becky Edelsohn
- Mahatma Gandhi, Indian independence activist, part of campaign of nonviolent resistance to British rule in India
- Akbar Ganji
- Bekele Gerba, Oromo politician promoting non-violence, 2021[13]
- Andrias Ghukasyan
- Max Goldstein
- Lena Hades
- Anna Hazare
- J. B. S. Haldane
- Larry Hebert
- Barry Horne
- Charles Hyder, fasts in 1986-87 for 218 days against arms race, nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste
- Samer Tariq Issawi
- Poopathy Kanapathipillai
- Jack Kevorkian
- Mustafa Kocak, starved himself to death in protest of his sentencing without a fair trial
- Jüri Kukk
- Pavel Kushnir, Russian musician and activist, died 2024
- Jawar Mohammed, Ethiopian politician and activist, 2021
- Kasra Nouri
- Jean Lassalle
- Antonio Ledezma, Venezuelan politician, 2009
- Gloria Lee
- Ly Tong
- Haia Lifşiţ
- Ihar Losik, Belarusian blogger
- Joe Madison, known as "The Black Eagle," radio personality and human and civil rights activist, 2021
- 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
- Olden Polynice, Haitian basketball player who went on a 10-day strike
- Muhammad al-Qiq
- Mahmudur Rahman, Bangladeshi news editor
- Militão Ribeiro
- Randall Robinson
- George Rolph
- Mikheil Saakashvili
- Hoda Saber
- Arash Sadeghi
- Andrei Sakharov[14]
- 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
- Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate
- Mohamed Soltan, Egyptian opposition activist, 2014
- Theresa Spence
- Potti Sreeramulu, Indian revolutionary, specifically for the Andhra region independence movement
- Thileepan (Rasaiah Parthipan)
- Yulia Tymoshenko
- Judith Todd, political activist regarding Zimbabwe
- 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., Nepali orthopaedic surgeon and philanthropic activist
- Ebru Timtik, Kurdish-Turkish human rights lawyer, died 2020
- Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist, 2021[15]
- Parit Chiwarak and Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul, jailed pro-democratic activists, 2021, demanding justice and scrapping of Lese majeste in Thailand[16]
- Jeanine Áñez, jailed former president of Bolivia, 2022.[17]
- Vojislav Šešelj, Serbian politician
- Tomislav Nikolić, Serbian politician, 2011
- Marinika Tepić, Serbian politician, 2023
- Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician
- Kim Dae-jung, South Korean politician
- Chun Doo-hwan, South Korean politician
- Chun Jung-bae, South Korean politician
- Moon Sung-hyun, South Korean politician
- Woo Sang-ho (politician), South Korea
- Choi Byung-ryeol, South Korean politician
- Moon Jae-in, South Korean politician
- Cho Won-jin, South Korean politician
- Kim Sung-tae, South Korean politician
- Hwang Kyo-ahn, South Korean politician
- Woo Won-shik, South Korean politician
- Lee Jae-myung, South Korean politician
- Prashant Kishor, Indian politician
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References
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