Joe Murphy was one of three IRA Volunteers who died on hunger strike in jails in 1920.

Human rights activist Irom Sharmila has ended her hunger strike, the world’s longest, which protested alleged army atrocities in northeast India. She wants to contest local elections.

A Palestinian detainee has entered uncharted medical territory with a hunger strike of 89 days - longer than protest fasts by other Palestinians or by prisoners in Northern Ireland in 1981, an advocacy group has said.

The condition of a Palestinian journalist on a 48-day hunger strike in an Israeli jail is deteriorating, the man’s wife and a Palestinian official said.

Ibrahim Halawa is entering his 30th day on hunger strike in an Egyptian jail.

Ibrahim Halawa has told his family he is waiting on the death rope in jail in Egypt.

Israel’s parliament has passed a contentious law that would permit the force-feeding of inmates on hunger strike, eliciting harsh criticism over the practice.

A teacher who has threatened to go on hunger strike over part of the proposed reform of the Junior Cert, says she has received huge support.