List of 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
1989 Kosovo miners' strike – strike of ethnic Albanian Kosovars in the Trepça Mines protesting the abolition of autonomy of the Province of Kosovo by the Socialist Republic of Serbia. 180 hospitalized, resignation of Rahman Morina, Ali Shukriu and Husamedin Azemi; three leaders of League of Communists of Kosovo who were installed by demonstrations supporting the Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević.
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
- Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair
2009 Tamil diaspora protests – Worldwide protest against the Sri Lankan Civil War
2009 Venezuelan student hunger strike [es] – 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
- Khader Adnan
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

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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