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Irom Chanu Sharmila | Tarak Talluri
Irom Chanu Sharmila

Date

14th March 1972
Expired!

Time

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Labels

-BORN-,
Poetess,
Political Activist,
Social Activist

Irom Chanu Sharmila

Irom Chanu Sharmila an Indian civil rights activist, political activist, poetess. She widely recognized as the person who conducted the world’s longest hunger striker. Rabindranath Tagore Peace Prize recipient. In November 2000, she began a hunger strike for abolishing the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958. After 16 years, she ended her fast in 2016, after being nasally force-fed for over 500 weeks in custody.  Amnesty International has declared her as a prisoner of conscience.