hunger strike
Example Sentences
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Earlier this month, three Kherson prisoners went on a five-day hunger strike to protest their detention in an immigration prison in the southern Russia city of Volgograd.
From New York Times
He ended his hunger strike after President Bill Clinton agreed to grant would-be refugees asylum hearings rather than interdicting them at sea and returning them immediately to their violence-wracked country.
From Washington Post
Frustration drove one father to do a long hunger strike outside parliament and other climate activists to launch civil disobedience campaigns.
From Reuters
Hundreds of “enemy combatants,” held without charges, had gone on hunger strikes.
From Washington Post
Ms Reid has campaigned for years to find out what happened to her son, and camped outside the Crown Office in Edinburgh while on hunger strike in 2022.
From BBC
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