List of hunger strikes
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This is an incomplete list of recent hunger strikes and people who have conducted a hunger strike.
- 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 Northern Ireland against the rescindment of Special Category Status during The Troubles
- 1981 Irish hunger strike – ended with 10 of the participants starving themselves to death, radicalizing Irish nationalist politics and leading to Sinn Féin becoming a mainstream political party.
- 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 nuclear arms race
- 1986 Veterans Fast For Life – Protest against the Reagan administration's support for the Contra insurgency in Sandinista Nicaragua
- 1989 Kosovo miners' strike – strike of ethnic Albanian Kosovars in the Trepça Mines protesting the abolition of autonomy of the Province of Kosovo by the Socialist Republic of Serbia. 180 hospitalized, resignation of Rahman Morina, Ali Shukriu and Husamedin Azemi; three leaders of League of Communists of Kosovo who were installed by demonstrations supporting the Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević.
- 2000 Death fast in Turkey – Protest by inmates of Turkish F-Type Prisons
- Guantánamo Bay hunger strikes – Prisoner protests at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a notorious U.S. military prison known for indefinite detention without trial and torture, during the war on terror
- 2009 Tamil diaspora protests – Worldwide protest against the Sri Lankan Civil War
- 2009 Venezuelan student hunger strike – Nationwide hunger strike by students asking a visit to Venezuela by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- 2012 Palestinian mass hunger strikes – Protest by Palestinian prisoners against Israeli administrative detention
- 2012 Kurdish prisoners hunger strike – Part of Peace and Democracy Party demonstrations against Turkish restrictions on Kurdish civil rights during the Kurdish–Turkish conflict and the Arab Spring
- 2013 California prisoner hunger strike – Protest against indefinite solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison and for better conditions at High Desert State Prison.
- 2021 New York City Taxi Workers' Alliance – protesting the debt incurred from Taxi medallions. Lasted 15 days and was joined by then New York State Representative and future Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani, who participated in the last 12 days of the strike[2]
- 2024 Starve until you are honest – a climate hunger strike in Berlin, Germany involving six strikers
- 2025 Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike – eight hunger strikers in UK prisons