Hunger Strike Definition

Hunger Strike Sentence Examples

• After a 5 day hunger strike she was released.

• In 1913 he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for a speech made at the Albert Hall, but was released after some days of hunger strike.

• He strongly upheld in the House of Commons the measures taken, first by Mr. Macpherson and then by Sir Hamar Greenwood, to restore law and order in that country; and definitely refused to interfere in the case of the Lord Mayor of Cork who, sentenced to imprisonment for conducting a rebel organization, went on hunger-strike and eventually succumbed in gaol.

• There are also reports of a hunger strike by 51 detained afghanis that has since been broken up by the French authorities.

• Two of the men on hunger strike in Harmondsworth are entering coma.