hunger strike

He dealt with his internment without trial in the 1970s and the 1981 Republican hunger strikes, by which time he was Sinn Féin vice president.

But the students involved in the hunger strike say the college isn’t doing enough.

Price, from a Catholic family with a history of resistance, robbed banks, set bombs and went to prison, where she and her sister held a hunger strike.

The hunger strike meant the defendant had become increasingly weak, which led to the case being moved to Loughborough due to the defendant's new requirement for a wheelchair, something the original court could not accommodate.

He has already been on hunger strike twice, protesting at what he has called a lack of proper judicial process, amid allegations of torture.