What happened with Irom Chanu Sharmila?

Sharmila has been regularly released and re-arrested every year since her hunger strike began. On 6 October, she was re-arrested by the Delhi police for attempting suicide and was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where she wrote letters to the Prime Minister, the President, and the Home Minister.

How did Irom Sharmila survive?

If she was force-fed through her nose, she reasoned, she was holding to her promise not to eat until Afspa was repealed. And so, several times a day for the next 16 years, Sharmila was kept alive by a mash of nutrients and water pumped through a a three-feet tube between her nose and stomach.

What was the longest hunger strike?

India’s Mahatma Gandhi staged several hunger strikes to protest British rule, the longest said to have been 21 days. Bobby Sands, a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), starved himself to death in 1981 after 66 days on hunger strike while demanding to be treated as a political prisoner, not as a criminal.

How old is Sharmila Irom?

49 years (March 14, 1972)
Irom Chanu Sharmila/Age

Has anyone ever died from a hunger strike?

On April 3, 1972, Pedro Luis Boitel, an imprisoned poet and dissident, declared himself on hunger strike. After 53 days on hunger strike, receiving only liquids, he died of starvation on May 25, 1972.

Is AFSPA still in Manipur?

Rajendra Prasad on 22 May 1958. It was replaced by the Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers Act, 1958 on 11 September 1958. In November 2016, Government of India has extended AFSPA in three districts of Arunachal Pradesh- Tirap, Changlang and Longding.

Why is Irom Sharmila known as the Iron Lady?

Irom Sharmila, often referred to as the “Iron Lady” is a civil rights and political activist, and poet from Manipur. She went on a nearly sixteen-year hunger strike for repelling Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act or AFSPA. When she called off the hunger strike, her supporters didn’t take it very well.

How many days did Gandhi go without eating?

21 days
At the age of 74 and already slight of build, Mahatma Gandhi, the famous nonviolent campaigner for India’s independence, survived 21 days of total starvation while only allowing himself sips of water.

How long did Gandhi hunger strike?

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, informally The Father of the Nation in India, undertook 18 fasts during India’s freedom movement. His longest fasts lasted 21 days.

Who started hunger strike?

Gandhi and Bhagat Singh It was only on the 116th day of their fast, on October 5, 1929, that Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt gave up their strike (surpassing the 97-day world record for hunger strikes which was set by an Irish revolutionary).

What does IROM mean?

IROM