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This is an incomplete list of recent hunger strikes and people who have conducted a
hunger strike .
Hunger strikes
Groups who have conducted hunger strikes
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 an 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
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
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
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