Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland highlighted their cause by staging hunger strikes in 1980 and 1981.
They're protesting their ongoing imprisonment by going on hunger strikes for what is now 100 days.
The jail, where 10 men died in the 1981 republican hunger strikes, closed in 2000.
In this open season of hunger strikes, India is bracing for another one, beginning this weekend.
Glasgow-born Brady has been on successive hunger strikes since 1999 in an attempt to kill himself.
Many are homeless, and some have conducted hunger strikes because they have not been paid.
Hunger strikes have been used by both violent and non-violent movements, and some have been more successful than others at bringing about change.
Diab's brother Bassam, himself a former prisoner, said hunger strikes are the only weapons to end the practice of administrative detention.
Since 2005, Franklin Brito has gone on six hunger strikes to demand an end to the violation of his rights.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest say Obama's team is closely monitoring the hunger strikes, but deferred to the Pentagon for any specifics.
In past years, the DHKP-C group has spearheaded hunger strikes against Turkish prison conditions that led to the deaths of dozens of inmates.
These businesses are built on the idea that most of the time, consumers are driving alone and when hunger strikes, the decision is simple.
Previously she has boycotted trial proceedings against her, and has also staged hunger strikes in protest at conditions in prison and alleged election fraud.
Hunger strikes are frequent at Guantanamo, but the current protest - which began in February - is reportedly one of the longest and most widespread.
Hunger strikes are frequent at Guantanamo, but the current protest - which began on 6 February - is one of the longest and most widespread.
The campaign resulted in countless bombings, armed attacks, and hunger strikes.
In several universities, students have staged anti-Suharto rallies or hunger strikes.
Hunger strikes have happened frequently at the US military prison, but this protest, which began in February, is reportedly one of the longest and most widespread.
And the indefinite imprisonment the detainees face has fueled the wave of hunger strikes, which have progressed to the point where about 30 inmates are being force-fed.
The largest of Guantanamo's hunger strikes began in the summer of 2005 and reached a peak of around 131 prisoners, when the facility held about 500 detainees.
The business model of these companies is to entice the on-the-go, errand running consumer to stop in and pick up a burger (or taco) when the hunger strikes.
Between 1979 and 1982 Nicholas was a BBC reporter in Northern Ireland, working on major stories such as the assassination of Earl Mountbatten and the IRA hunger strikes.
Mr Farinas, a doctor of psychology and journalist, has spent more than eleven years in prison for a variety of offences and has staged dozens of hunger strikes.
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Once hunger strikes, festival-goers flock to booths selling Beaver Tails.
Prisoners have launched hunger strikes in the past in hopes of bringing attention to their cause and pushing Israel to ease conditions or allow some prisoners to leave.
Sinn Fein's former director of publicity Danny Morrison, who helped lead the negotiations, said Mrs Thatcher was not prepared to do a deal with the IRA during the Hunger Strikes.
There were a couple cases in the Irish hunger strikes where they were force-fed, but that only happened after court orders from relatives of some of the people on hunger strike.
Those included not just signing the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985, but also her willingness to authorise back channel contacts with the IRA leadership during the hunger strikes in the early 1980s.
Despite hunger strikes, marches and mine occupations by the highly organised and militant miners' federation, the number at work has inexorably shrunk to under 2, 000, as one mine after another has closed.
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