Sentence examples for conducted hunger from inspiring English sources

Some inmates have conducted hunger strikes, and a few are reported to have died.

Other detainees, like Yemeni Emad Hassan, have conducted hunger strikes since 2005.

Mr. Castro added that the only torture being carried out in Cuba was that performed by the American military at the base in Guantánamo Bay, where detainees have conducted hunger strikes as well.

In addition to organizing and encouraging grassroots movements, Hazare frequently conducted hunger strikes to further his causes a tactic reminiscent, to many, of the work of Mohandas K. Gandhi.

In a decisive move in June 2012, the activists began conducting hunger strikes and sit-ins in Obama for America campaign offices.

Mr. Hazare, who has conducted numerous hunger strikes over the years, has been fasting since Tuesday, and his aides said he had already lost about seven pounds.

Hundreds of radical leftist prisoners and their relatives have conducted a hunger strike since the inmates were transferred from dormitory-style prisons to jails with cells, where, inmates say, they are vulnerable to abuse.

In the past detainees on Nauru conducted multiple hunger strikes in protest at both the length of their detention and the conditions they lived in.

Eventually, the turkeys in the pen conducted a hunger strike causing the farmer to relent and purchase grain to feed them -- even though he could not afford it.

Obama acknowledged that some prisoners are conducting a hunger strike.

She is thin and weak after conducting several hunger strikes to protest harsh treatment, her husband said.