We have been contacted by people in the US who have been telling us that they also want to start a hunger strike, so it looks like the movement is still going on, " he said."

有一些美国民众联络了我们，说他们也想开始绝食，因此，这项运动似乎还在继续。

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They were later released. In 1981,Tehran authorities changed the name of the road running in front of the British embassy from Churchill Street to Bobby Sands Street, after the Irish Republican Army member who died on a hunger strike in prison.

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To force the issue she embarked on a hunger strike drinking water but nothing else.

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Mrs Wheeldon went on a hunger strike and was released after nine months but died shortly afterwards.

BBC: L-R Hetty Wheeldon, Winnie Mason, Alice Wheeldon

She went on a hunger strike, and human rights activists from around the world called for her release.

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