hunger strike
Noun
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Noun
hunger strike (plural hunger strikes)
- a fast undertaken as a means of protest, often by a prisoner
- 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "Life in a Russian Prison ↗," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- Alekhina has become a vocal advocate for prisoners’ rights, a sort of jailhouse lawyer who has exposed numerous violations, filed copious complaints, and, in May, held an 11-day hunger strike that succeeded in changing conditions in her penal colony.
- 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "Life in a Russian Prison ↗," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- French: grève de faim
- German: Hungerstreik
- Italian: sciopero della fame
- Portuguese: greve de fome
- Russian: голодо́вка
- Spanish: huelga de hambre
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