The protesters have been on hunger strike for 17 days.

抗议者们已经绝食了17天。

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He is on hunger strike in protest at what he claims is his wrongful conviction for murder.

他正绝食抗议，声称对他谋杀罪的判决不公正。

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To get permission for college, she went on three-day-hunger strike (抗议) .

为学院获得许可，她绝食抗议了三天。

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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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Ms Tymoshenko is reported to be on hunger strike and says she is very ill.

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He was a member of the INLA who died on hunger strike in 1981.

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Three members of the INLA died in the jail while on hunger strike in the 1980s.

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