It involved a hunger-strike, that almost cost him his life, and a prison rooftop protest, though his denials of guilt have arguably cost him the opportunity of getting parole.
Dr Paisley's suspicions of the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland surfaced during a tense meeting with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Westminster in June 1981 during the hunger-strike.
Tymoshenko, who was a leading figure in the 2004 Orange Revolution and had been on a 20-day hunger strike until last week, argues she has been victim of mistreatment and politically-motivated imprisonment driven by current president Viktor Yanukovych.
Bonino, in a protest against lack of media access, last week went on a five-day hunger strike.
Dr. Sherley, 52 years old, staged a 12-day hunger strike in 2007 after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology denied him tenure.
Hassan Abed Rabo, a spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Prisoner Affairs, said it was an "open-ended hunger strike" and "a sign of mourning" for Jaradat.
Mr Khawaja began a much-publicised hunger strike on 8 February in protest at the life sentence passed down on him and others by a military court last June during Bahrain's three-month "state of national security".
It formed the basis of a story published in the Daily Mirror in December 1999 about alleged mistreatment of Brady while he was being force-fed on hunger strike.
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Al-Khawaja has been on a hunger strike for more than two months.
Irom Sharmila Chanu, 40, has been on a hunger strike since 2 November 2000 in the north-eastern state of Manipur.
Mrs Mousawi said he ended the hunger strike in part because he was being force-fed by two doctors at the prison where he is serving his sentence.
Now Mr Hazare has announced that he will resume his hunger strike if parliament fails to pass the anti-corruption law during the upcoming winter session.
As Mr Hazare went on hunger strike in April 2011 to demand stringent anti-corruption laws, in particular a law to create an ombudsman to deal with allegations of corruption, Mr Kejriwal was by his side, making speeches, briefing reporters and formulating strategy.
He went on hunger strike last year to demand that parliament approved electoral reform - to no avail.
Hassan al-Turabi, an Islamist leader under house arrest, began a hunger strike this week with 66 of his followers.
When the folksy, septuagenarian former army driver began a new hunger strike at a ground in Mumbai on Tuesday demanding a strong anti-corruption law, only a few hundred people turned up.
Tuesday's vote capped a dramatic day in which Anna Hazare, the 74-year-old public face of the popular anticorruption movement, began a hunger strike in Mumbai, drawing out thousands of supporters to push the government to strengthen the bill submitted to the lower house, known as the Lok Sabha.
There were a couple cases in the Irish hunger strikes where they were force-fed, but that only happened after court orders from relatives of some of the people on hunger strike.
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