hunger strike
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English
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”, in 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.
Translations
a fast undertaken as a means of protest
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