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Peace Advocate Irom Sharmila Named 'World's Longest Running Hunger Striker'
newsblaze.com | Tripti Nath | September 14, 2011
Sharmila has been described by a British newspaper as "the world's longest running hunger striker". All these years she has not even had a drop of water and cleans her teeth with cotton wool. In her home state the government's response all along has been perfunctory. All that the state is doing is to keep her alive to discharge its constitutional obligation.
For refusing food and water, interpreted as a self destructive act, Sharmila has attracted charges under Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code and s forced fed liquid diet by the hospital authorities through a nasal tube. The maximum sentence for attempt to suicide is one year. In Sharmila's case, the government keeps extending her remand, year after year, because she resumed fasting after being set free.
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