Hunger strike

Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Wednesday said he is prepared to end his 25-day hunger strike over the NEET paper leak issue if the Centre assures that no punitive or retaliatory action will be taken against students and protesters who…
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The Bihar Police on early Monday arrested Jan Suraaj chief Prashant Kishor, who was sitting on an indefinite hunger strike at Gandhi Maidan in Patna, PTI reported. Police personnel removed him and his supporters from the protest site.…
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Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik discontinued his hunger strike on Monday about 10 days after it was launched. The head of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) had announced the hunger strike when he was refused the…
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Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday said he will go on a hunger strike against the state government if the Congress government does not make public the reports on drug menace and the sacrilege incident. Accusing his own…
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The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British Iranian held in Iran since 2016, began a hunger strike Sunday to denounce the British government for “also letting us down” and failing to secure her release. Richard Ratcliffe plans to…
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