They have begun a hunger strike in protest at the alleged beating.

他们已经开始了绝食以抗议所指称的打人事件。

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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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I will take a little water each day to prolong the hunger strike until my friends come back, but the deadline is 21 April and, if our demands have not been met by then, I will stop even taking water.

为了能等到我的朋友回来，我将每天喝少量的水，以延长绝食。但最后期限是4月21日，如果我们的要求到那时还没有得到满足，我将停止饮水。

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Mia Farrow began a hunger strike to protest the situation of refugees in Darfur.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

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.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

Saberi's father Reza, who is visiting Tehran with his wife Akiko, in a bid to win her release,sounded pleased that his daughter finally agreed to end her hunger strike.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

Last November, he was instrumental in having a hunger strike called off among imprisoned detainees.

CNN: PKK calls for guns to be silent, how will Turkey respond?

Both began a hunger strike in November taking in only water and refusing food supplements.

BBC: Two Palestinians held in Israeli jail end hunger strike

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

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