This is an incomplete list of hunger strikes and people who have conducted a

hunger strike A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke a feeling of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most ...

Hunger strikes

* Guantánamo Bay hunger strikes – Prisoner protests at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a notorious U.S. military prison known for

indefinite detention without trial Indefinite detention is the incarceration of an arrested person by a national government or law enforcement agency for an indefinite amount of time without a trial; the practice violates many national and international laws, including human rights ...

and

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, during the

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Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair (born 1965) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. On August 13, 2008, it was reported that Ahmed Zaid Zuhair had been on a h ...

* 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

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against the rescindment of

Special Category Status In July 1972, William Whitelaw, the Conservative British government's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, granted Special Category Status (SCS) to all prisoners serving sentences in Northern Ireland for Troubles-related offences. This had be ...

during

The Troubles The Troubles ( ga, Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as an " ...

Brendan Hughes Brendan Hughes (June 1948 – 16 February 2008), also known as "The Dark", and "Darkie" was a leading Irish republican and former Officer Commanding (OC) of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He was the leader ...

Tommy McKearney Tommy McKearney (born 1952) is a former Irish volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army who took part in the 1980 hunger strike. Background McKearney was born in Lurgan in the north-east of County Armagh, but he was raised in The Moy ...

Raymond McCartney Raymond McCartney (born 29 November 1954) is an Irish former Sinn Féin politician, and a former hunger striker and volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). IRA membership McCartney took part in the civil rights march in Derry ...

1981 Irish hunger strike The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special C ...

– ended with 10 of the participants starving themselves to death, radicalizing

Irish nationalist Irish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which, in its broadest sense, asserts that the people of Ireland should govern Ireland as a sovereign state. Since the mid-19th century, Irish nationalism has largely taken the form of c ...

politics and leading to

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becoming a mainstream political party. ** Paddy Quinn * 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

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* 1986 Veterans Fast For Life – Protest against the Reagan administration's support for the

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insurgency in

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* 2000 ''Death fast'' in Turkey – Protest by inmates of Turkish F-Type Prisons *

2009 Tamil diaspora protests Between 2008 and 2009, major protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War (often referred to as the Tamil protests by Western news media) took place in several countries around the world, urging national and world leaders and organisations to take a ...

– Worldwide protest against the Sri Lankan Civil War * 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 The Peace and Democracy Party ( tr, Barış ve Demokrasi Partisi, ku, Partiya Aştî û Demokrasiyê, BDP) was a Kurdish political party in Turkey existing from 2008 to 2014. Development BDP succeeded the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in 20 ...

demonstrations against Turkish restrictions on

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civil rights during the

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and the

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2013 California prisoner hunger strike The 2013 California prisoner hunger strike started on July 8, 2013 involving over 29,000 inmates in protest of the state's use of solitary confinement practices and ended on September 5, 2013. The hunger strike was organized by inmates in long te ...

– Protest against indefinite solitary confinement at

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and for better conditions at High Desert State Prison. * 2021 Youth hunger strike for democracy—Protest by 20 Arizona college students to urge the

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and the

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to pass the

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Groups who have conducted hunger strikes

* British and American suffragettes ** Alice Paul ** Emmeline Pankhurst **

Marion Wallace Dunlop Marion Wallace Dunlop (22 December 1864 – 12 September 1942) was a Scottish artist and author. She was the first and one of the most well known British suffragettes to go on hunger strike, on 5 July 1909, after being arrested in July 1909 fo ...

*Cuban dissidents ** Guillermo Fariñas **

Pedro Luis Boitel Pedro Luis Boitel (May 13, 1931–May 25, 1972) was a Cubans, Cuban poet and dissident who opposed the governments of both Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro. In 1961, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Boitel died during a hunger strike in ...

** Jorge Luis García Pérez ** Orlando Zapata Tamayo ** Jesús Joel Díaz Hernández **

José Daniel Ferrer José Daniel Ferrer García (Palma Soriano, July 29, 1970) is a Cuban human rights activist, whom the international and Spanish media claim to be "the visible head of the dissident movement in the interior of the island since the death of Oswald ...

** Darsi Ferrer Ramírez ** René Gómez Manzano *

Grup Yorum Grup Yorum is a band from Turkey known for their political songwriting. Grup Yorum (''Yorum'' means interpretation or comment in Turkish) has released twenty-three albums and one film since 1985. Some of the group's concerts and albums were bann ...

** Helin Bölek ** Ibrahim Gökçek * Irish republicans all died while on hunger strike **

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(1917) **

Terence MacSwiney Terence James MacSwiney (; ga, Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne; 28 March 1879 – 25 October 1920) was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. He ...

(

1920 Cork hunger strike The 1920 Cork hunger strike began on 11 August 1920, when 65 men interned without trial in Cork County Gaol went on hunger strike, demanding release from prison, and reinstatement of their status as political prisoners. The following day, they were ...

) ** Michael Fitzgerald (

) ** Joe Murphy (

) **

Denny Barry Denis "Denny" Barry (15 July 1883 – 20 November 1923) was an Irish Republican who died during the 1923 Irish hunger strikes, shortly after the Irish Civil War. Early life Barry was born into a farming family in Riverstick, in south Cou ...

1923 Irish hunger strikes ** Andy O'Sullivan ( 1923 Irish hunger strikes) **

Joseph Whitty Michael Joseph Whitty (1904 – 2 August 1923) was the youngest (19 years of age) of the 22 Irish republicans who died while on hunger strike in the 20th century. He fought with the IRA in the Irish War of Independence, on the Anti-Treaty side i ...

( 1923 Irish hunger strikes) **

Tony D'Arcy Tony D'Arcy was a senior leader in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died as a result of a 52 day Hunger-strike (16 April 1940) at the age of 32. Background, roles in the IRA and arrest D'Arcy was from Galway and a member of the IRA during the ...

(1940) **

Jack McNeela Jack "Sean" McNeela (died 19 April 1940) was a senior member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Ballycroy, County Mayo, Ireland. McNeela was one of 22 Irish republicans (in the 20th century) who died on hunger-strike. The largest hunger s ...

(1940) **

Seán McCaughey Seán McCaughey (Irish: Seán Mac Eóchaidh) (1915 – 11 May 1946) was an Irish Republican Army leader in the 1930s and 1940s and hunger striker. Background McCaughey was born in Aughnacloy, County Tyrone in 1915 and in 1921 his family move ...

(1946) ** Michael Gaughan (1974) ** Frank Stagg (1976) ** Michael Devine (1981) **

Kieran Doherty Kieran Doherty may refer to: *Kieran Doherty (hunger striker) Kieran Doherty (16 October 1955 – 2 August 1981) was an Irish republican hunger striker and politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency fro ...

(1981) - while on hunger strike was elected to the Republic of Irelands Dáil Éireann, representing the Cavan–Monaghan constituency. **

Francis Hughes Francis Joseph Sean Hughes (28 February 1956 – 12 May 1981) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Northern Ireland until his ar ...

(1981) **

Martin Hurson Edward Martin Hurson (13 September 1956 – 13 July 1981) was an Irish Republican Hunger Striker and a Volunteer in the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Background Martin Hurson, from Cappagh, County Tyro ...

(1981) ** Kevin Lynch (1981) **

Raymond McCreesh Raymond McCreesh ( ga, Réamonn Mac Raois, 25 February 1957 – 21 May 1981) was an Irish volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 1976, he and two other IRA volunteers were captured while attemp ...

(1981) ** Joe McDonnell (1981) **

Thomas McElwee Thomas McElwee (30 November 1957 – 8 August 1981) was an Irish republican who participated in the 1981 hunger strike and a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). From Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, he di ...

(1981) **

Patsy O'Hara Patsy O'Hara (Irish: Peatsaí Ó hEadhra; 11 July 1957 – 21 May 1981) was an Irish republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). Biography O'Hara was born in Bishop Street, Derry, Northern Ireland. He ...

(1981) **

Bobby Sands Robert Gerard Sands ( ga, Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was a member (and leader in the Maze prison) of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison M ...

(1981) – leader of the hunger strike; elected to the

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during the strike before his death. *

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Jatindra Nath Das Jatindra Nath Das ( bn, যতীন্দ্রনাথ দাস; 27 October 1904 – 13 September 1929), better known as Jatin Das, was an Indian independence activist and revolutionary who worked to make India independent from the Brit ...

Batukeshwar Dutt Batukeshwar Dutt (18 November 1910 – 20 July 1965) was an Indian socialist revolutionary and independence fighter in the early 1900s. He is best known for having exploded two bombs, along with Bhagat Singh, in the Central Legislative Assemb ...

Bhagat Singh Bhagat Singh (27 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was a charismatic Indian revolutionary* * who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer * * in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian national ...

* Jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders ** Jordi Sánchez **

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** Josep Rull * Undocumented migrants in Belgium

Individuals who have conducted a hunger strike

* Alaa Abdelfattah, Egyptian * Maher al-Akhras, Palestinian * Meryem Altun, Turkey, prisoner, 2002. Died. * Ninoy Aquino * Stanislav Aseyev, Ukrainian writer and journalist. Kidnapped by militants from so-called '' Donetsk People's Republic''. * Igor Bancer, Polish Belarusian musician, activist, journalist, worker, and events organiser. *

Marwan Barghouti Marwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti (also transliterated al-Barghuthi; ar, مروان حسيب ابراهيم البرغوثي; born 6 June 1959) is a Palestinian political figure convicted and imprisoned for murder by an Israeli court. He is rega ...

* Chen Shui Bian, President of the Republic of China * Franklin Brito,

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, land dispute, 2010. Died. * Emil Calmanovici, Communist Romania, political prisoner, 1956. Died. * Cesar Chavez, leader of the

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union, Arizona, 1968, 1970, 1972. * William (Bill) Coleman, 2007 to 2014 in CT, USA * Alfredo Cospito - Italian anarchist prisoner who started an hunger strike on 20 October 2022 against the 41-bis prison regime. *

Indian independence activist and revolutionary * Andrey Derevyankin *

Katherine Dunham Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company for ...

* Ronald Easterbrook England, prisoner, 1997, 1999. * Becky Edelsohn * Mohandas Gandhi – Indian independence activist, part of campaign of nonviolent resistance to

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Akbar Ganji Akbar Ganji ( fa, اکبر گنجی , born 31 January 1960 in Tehran) is an Iranian journalist, writer and a former member of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He has been described as "Iran's preeminent political dissident", and a "wildly pop ...

Kasra Nouri Kasra Nouri ( fa, کسری نوری) is an Iranian journalist and political activist. He was the CEO of "Majzooban-e noor" website, which covered news about the Dervish religious community, Nouri was last arrested with his family during 2018 Derv ...

Andrias Ghukasyan Andrias Marati Ghukasyan ( hy, Անդրիաս Մարատի Ղուկասյան) is an Armenian political analyst. Ghukasyan was one of seven candidates in the 2013 presidential election. Early life In 1987, he finished secondary school at N83. ...

Max Goldstein Max Goldstein (1898–1924), also known as Coca, was a Romanian revolutionary, variously described as a communist and an anarchist. Born in Bârlad to a Jewish family, he worked as a clerk for two years. He later moved to Bucharest in 1916, w ...

Lena Hades Lena Alekseevna Hades (russian: Лена Алексеевна Хейдиз; born October 2, 1959) is a Russian artist, writer and art theory, art theorist. Early life Lena Hades was born in Siberia on October 2, 1959. Her father worked as c ...

* Anna Hazare *

J. B. S. Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (; 5 November 18921 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biolog ...

* Barry Horne * Samer Tariq Issawi * Poopathy Kanapathipillai *

Jack Kevorkian Murad Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian (May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011) was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is n ...

* Mustafa Kocak, starved himself to death in protest of his sentencing without a

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Jawar Mohammed Jawar Mohammed ( om, Jawaar Mahammad; born 12 May 1986) is an Ethiopian political analyst and activist. One of the founders of the Oromia Media Network (OMN), Jawar was a leading organizer of the 2014–2016 Oromo protests. He has been credited ...

, Ethiopian politician and activist, 2021 * Jüri Kukk *

Jean Lassalle Jean Lassalle (; oc, Joan de Lassala; born 3 May 1955) is a French politician who represented the 4th constituency of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2022. A former member of the Democratic Movement ...

Antonio Ledezma Antonio José Ledezma Díaz (born 1 May 1955) is a Venezuelan lawyer, politician and former political prisoner. After unsuccessfully challenging for the leadership of Democratic Action in 1999, he founded a new party, the Fearless People's All ...

, Venezuelan politician, 2009 *

Gloria Lee Gloria Lee (March 22, 1926 – December 3, 1962) was an American airline flight attendant and a follower of Oahspe who became part of the 1950s contactee movement in 1953. Lee, a native of Los Angeles, claimed to be in telepathic communication wit ...

Ly Tong Lê Văn Tống (September 1, 1946 – April 5, 2019), known as Lý Tống, was a Vietnamese American anti-communist activist. Early life Ly Tong was born on September 1, 1946, to a family of 9 brothers. His father Le Van Tan was a member of th ...

* Haia Lifşiţ *

Ihar Losik Ihar Alyaksandravich Losik ( be, Ігар Аляксандравіч Лосік, russian: Игорь Александрович Лосик, born 20 May 1992) is a Belarusian blogger and consultant of the Belarusian section of Radio Free Europe/R ...

, Belarusian blogger * Joe Madison,known as “The Black Eagle," radio personality and human and civil rights activist, 2021 *

Anatoly Marchenko Anatoly Tikhonovich Marchenko (russian: Анато́лий Ти́хонович Ма́рченко, 23 January 1938 – 8 December 1986) was a Soviet dissident, author, and human rights campaigner, who became one of the first two recipients (al ...

Holger Meins Holger Klaus Meins (26 October 1941 – 9 November 1974) was a German cinematography student who joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s and died on hunger strike in prison. As a revolutionary Meins became an important member of t ...

* Akbar Mohammadi *

Abel Muzorewa Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa (14 April 1925 – 8 April 2010), also commonly referred to as Bishop Muzorewa, was a Zimbabwean bishop and politician who served as the first and only Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to ...

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an politician and cleric, 1983 * Tony Nicklinson * Jock Palfreeman *

Vasudev Balwant Phadke Vasudev Balwant Phadke (4 November 1845 – 17 February 1883) also known as the ‘Father Of Indian Armed Rebellion’ was an Indian independence activist and revolutionary who sought India's independence from colonial rule. Phadke was moved by ...

Darshan Singh Pheruman Darshan Singh Pheruman (1 August 1885 – 27 October 1969) was an Indian freedom fighter, Sikh activist and politician. Early life Darshan Singh Pheruman was born on 1 August 1888 at Amritsar, India in a Sikh family. In 1912, he joined India ...

Kemal Pir Kemal Pir, also known as Laz Kemal (1952 in Güzeloluk, Gümüşhane Province – 7 September 1982 in Diyarbakır, Turkey) was a Turkish Marxist–Leninist revolutionary and one of the ethnically Turkish founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. ...

* Muhammad al-Qiq *

Mahmudur Rahman Mahmudur Rahman ( bn, মাহমুদুর রহমান ; born 6 July 1953) is the one of the owners and acting editor of one of Bangladesh's Bengali daily newspapers, ''Amar Desh''. He is also an author, engineer and businessman. Establ ...

, Bangladeshi news editor * Militão Ribeiro *

Randall Robinson Randall Robinson (born July 6, 1941) is an African-American lawyer, author and activist, noted as the founder of TransAfrica. He is known particularly for his impassioned opposition to apartheid, and for his advocacy on behalf of Haitian immig ...

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* Hoda Saber * Arash Sadeghi *

Andrei Sakharov Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( rus, Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjevʲɪtɕ ˈsaxərəf; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, nobel laureate and activist for n ...

* Kostas Sakkas *

Nigamananda Saraswati Nigamanand Saraswati or Swami Nigamananda (2 August 1976 – 13 June 2011), often referred to as Ganga Putra Nigamananda, was a Hindu monk, who went on a hunger strike on 19 February 2011 to save the river Ganges from pollution caused by ille ...

– Protest against

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in the Ganges River * Jaume Sastre i Font, Catalan teacher in Mallorca *

Nadiya Savchenko Nadiya Viktorivna Savchenko ( uk, Надія Вікторівна Савченко; born 11 May 1981) is a Ukrainian politician, former Army aviation pilot in the Ukrainian Ground Forces and former People's Deputy of Ukraine. During the 2014 ...

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helicopter pilot, kidnapped and detained in Russian prison, 2015 and 2016. *

Oleg Sentsov Oleg (russian: Олег), Oleh ( uk, Олег), or Aleh ( be, Алег) is an East Slavic given name. The name is very common in Russia, Ukraine and Belаrus. It derives from the Old Norse ''Helgi'' ( Helge), meaning "holy", "sacred", or "blesse ...

, Ukrainian filmmaker and writer *

Irom Sharmila Irom Chanu Sharmila (born 14 March 1972), also known as the "Iron Lady of Manipur" or "Mengoubi" ("the fair one") is an Indian civil rights activist, political activist, and poet from the Indian state of Manipur, which is located on the north ...

Indian socialist revolutionary * Surat Singh Khalsa, Sikh Activist *

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, Homeless Advocate * Mohamed Soltan, Egyptian opposition activist, 2014 *

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Potti Sreeramulu Potti Sreeramulu (IAST: ''Poṭṭi Śreerāmulu''; 16 March 1901 – 15 December 1952), was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. Sreeramulu is revered as ''Amarajeevi'' ("Immortal Being") in the Andhra region for his self-sacrifice for ...

Indian revolutionary, specifically for the Andhra region independence movement. * Thileepan (Rasaiah Parthipan) * Judith Todd Political activist regarding Zimbabwe. * Sergey Udaltsov, Russian opposition activist, 2011 and 2014 *

Lluís Maria Xirinacs Lluís Maria Xirinacs i Damians (; 6 August 1932 – 11 August 2007) was a Spanish politician, writer, catholic cleric and advocate for the independence of Catalonia. Biography He was born in Barcelona in 1932, and he became a priest when he w ...

, Catalan politician, writer, and religious leader *

Lin Yi-hsiung Lin Yi-hsiung (; born 24 August 1941) is a politician from Taiwan. He was a major leader of the democratization movement in Taiwan. He graduated from the Department of Law of National Taiwan University. He was first exposed to politics in 1976 ...

– Protest against the construction of the

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* Shahrokh Zamani, Iranian Labour Activist, Died 2015 in

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's prison *

Govinda K.C. Govinda K.C. (Nepali language, Nepali: गोविन्द के.सी.) is a Nepalis, Nepali orthopedic surgeon, orthopaedic surgeon and philanthropic activist. He is a professor of orthopedics, orthopaedics at Tribhuvan University Teachin ...

Nepali orthopaedic surgeon and philanthropic activist. * Ebru Timtik, Kurdish-Turkish human rights lawyer, Died 2020 * Bekele Gerba, Oromo politician promoting non-violence, 2021 *

Alexei Navalny Alexei Anatolievich Navalny ( rus, links=no, Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, , ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj; born 4 June 1976) is a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, and anti-corruption act ...

, Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist, 2021. * Parit Chiwarak and Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul, jailed pro-democratic activists, 2021 – demanding justice and scrapping of Lese majeste in Thailand *

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, jailed former

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Vojislav Šešelj Vojislav Šešelj ( sr-Cyrl, Војислав Шешељ, ; born 11 October 1954) is a Serbian politician, founder and president of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS); he was convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal ...

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