Sentences with phrase «on a hunger strike last»

It took a me a while to determine this was the cause of my dogs being skittish and on a hunger strike last week.

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In their letter, which was printed in the Guardian newspaper on Tuesday, Bishop Jonathan and Dr Michael said: «We are concerned that the injustices that prompted last month's hunger strike at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre continue.

Last June, four men were released from Harmondsworth immigration removal centre after they went on hunger strike.

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The hunger strike lasted four days and each evening thousands of protestors gathered on the corners of Abbey Street and O'Connell Street.

From the furore around Chris Ofili's Holy Virgin Mary during the Brooklyn iteration of the Sensation show in 1999, to last year's kerfuffle over Martin Kippenberger's crucified frog, displayed in Bolzano, Italy — in protest at which an Italian politician, Franz Pahl, went on hunger strike, describing the sculpture as «a grave offence to our Catholic population» — the Catholic church has taken more than its share of body blows in recent years.

Calling it a «moral response to an immoral situation» and drawing inspiration from social justice luminaries like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., the organizers of Climate Justice Fast, and a growing list of 150 + supporters from around the world, have begun a hunger strike to last through the end of the COP15 climate change conference on December 18th.