To force the issue she embarked on a hunger strike drinking water but nothing else.
Mrs Wheeldon went on a hunger strike and was released after nine months but died shortly afterwards.
Irom Sharmila Chanu, 40, has been on a hunger strike since 2 November 2000 in the north-eastern state of Manipur.
Reza Saberi said his daughter had earlier wanted to go on a hunger strike but she was persuaded not to.
The detention of Ostreicher, who at one point went on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment, drew international attention.
Ms Becker, who is on a hunger strike, is refusing to allow the authorities to put her on a fluid drip.
When he was denied tenure by MIT in 2007, he went on a hunger strike (briefly) to draw attention to his case.
Al-Khawaja has been on a hunger strike for more than two months.
Blogger Maikel Nabil has been on a hunger strike since 23 August and according to his brother, he could refuse water if he is not freed.
There is no precedent in Scotland for force feeding a prisoner on hunger strike.
Bonino, in a protest against lack of media access, last week went on a five-day hunger strike.
Just before she died, it emerged that he had written her another letter to be opened after his own death (he survives, after more than a decade on 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.
Also Monday, a scheduled hearing where a Bahraini dissident on hunger strike could have appealed his life sentence was adjourned until April 30.
In September 2001, Mr Blunkett met about 90 people held at the centre who had been on hunger strike following a High Court ruling which decreed four Kurdish asylum seekers at a similar centre in Cambridgeshire were being held unlawfully.
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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.
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".
Mr Sharawna has been on hunger strike since July, except for a brief break in January.
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Mr Sharawna been on hunger strike since July, except for a brief break in January.
Margo Macdonald (Lothians, Independent) referred to three asylum seekers on hunger strike and asked how Scotland can be promoted as a welcoming place.
Responding to the verdict against Ms Sadler, Ms McCulloch said it was a disgrace and that she would now join her companion on hunger strike.
"I mentioned to both that I was very sad they were on hunger strike for 'special status' because I knew, from being a backbench peer, that the government were determined not to grant this, " he said.
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.
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