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.
Four prisoners had already begun a hunger strike, and several others joined them in recent days.
He remains locked up, but responded to Mr Mubarak's initiative by calling off a hunger strike.
Mrs Wheeldon went on a hunger strike and was released after nine months but died shortly afterwards.
Hassan al-Turabi, an Islamist leader under house arrest, began a hunger strike this week with 66 of his followers.
Ostreicher is nearly two months into a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
Irom Sharmila Chanu, 40, has been on a hunger strike since 2 November 2000 in the north-eastern state of Manipur.
Reza Saberi said his daughter had earlier wanted to go on a hunger strike but she was persuaded not to.
The detention of Ostreicher, who at one point went on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment, drew international attention.
Ms Becker, who is on a hunger strike, is refusing to allow the authorities to put her on a fluid drip.
When he was denied tenure by MIT in 2007, he went on a hunger strike (briefly) to draw attention to his case.
Al-Khawaja has been on a hunger strike for more than two months.
In Kenya, several hundred refugees who had fled violence in Zanzibar began a hunger strike in protest at their treatment by Kenya's authorities.
She has been joined by other single mothers from around the country and threatens a hunger strike unless the welfare payments are restored.
She warns that a hunger strike needs the oxygen of publicity but interest will wane if the cause at stake does not withstand public scrutiny.
At another apparel factory in Phnom Penh, workers staged a hunger strike and slept outside the facility this year to demand back wages and severance.
Seven prisoners have joined a hunger strike at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, bringing the total number to 52, US military officials have said.
Blogger Maikel Nabil has been on a hunger strike since 23 August and according to his brother, he could refuse water if he is not freed.
Bolivian President Evo Morales, fresh off a hunger strike seeking support in a conflict at home, has said he'll present a resolution to end the U.S. embargo.
Mr Issawi launched a hunger strike in August, but the the BBC understands that at points during the 200 odd days he has broken off his hunger strike for short periods only to resume it again.
Tuesday's vote capped a dramatic day in which Anna Hazare, the 74-year-old public face of the popular anticorruption movement, began a hunger strike in Mumbai, drawing out thousands of supporters to push the government to strengthen the bill submitted to the lower house, known as the Lok Sabha.
Prior to the disaster his administration had been under political fire for the slow pace of government reconstruction after the February earthquake and tsunami along Chile's south and central coast, and for his handling of a hunger strike by members of the Mapuche indigenous group of southern Chile, who are fighting for independence.
When the folksy, septuagenarian former army driver began a new hunger strike at a ground in Mumbai on Tuesday demanding a strong anti-corruption law, only a few hundred people turned up.
It involved a hunger-strike, that almost cost him his life, and a prison rooftop protest, though his denials of guilt have arguably cost him the opportunity of getting parole.
General Banzer was forced to stand down in 1978 by a worsening economy, erosion of support in the armed forces and a big hunger strike, which led to international pressure for elections.
There is no precedent in Scotland for force feeding a prisoner on hunger strike.
Just before she died, it emerged that he had written her another letter to be opened after his own death (he survives, after more than a decade on hunger strike).
Mr Khawaja began a much-publicised hunger strike on 8 February in protest at the life sentence passed down on him and others by a military court last June during Bahrain's three-month "state of national security".
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