Hunger strike

\nA hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest or to achieve a goal such as a policy change. Mohandas Gandhi engaged in two famous hunger strikes. The first protested British rule of India; the second, autocratic rule in the newly self-governed India. Bobby Sands was one of ten Irish nationalist prisoners who died due to a hunger strike in 1981. \n

Reference

\n*The Northern Ireland Hunger Strike of 1981