Chicago, IL- Comedian Dick Gregory, after 22 days of fasting in protest against the war in Vietnam, is 40 pounds lighter, and said he's going to look...
In Belfast, Northern Ireland, demonstrators carrying portraits, hold a silent vigil for the Irish Republican Army hunger-striker, Bobby Sands, who...
Senator Robert Kennedy breaks bread with Union Leader Cesar Chavez as Chavez ended a 25-day fast in support of non-violence in the strike against...
Masked members of an IRA honor guard bear the coffin of hunger striker Bobby Sands to his grave. He and nine other prisoners in Belfast's Crumlin...
Three women talk casually near a graffitied message directed toward hunger striker Bobby Sands well in to his protest against British forces in...
Activists staging a hunger strike, some with banners, march during a student-led, pro-democracy demonstration, Beijing, China, May 1989.
During the hunger strike by IRA members held in Maze prison, there was violent rioting in the streets of Belfast.
Black and white print, showing an imprisoned woman restrained in a chair and being force-fed through a tube in her nostril, to illustrate the horrors...
Illustration from the Russian satirical journal Skorpion depicting several women sitting in a single prison cell, with text reading 'Hunger strike',...
Some of the 15,000 unemployed and hunger-striking miners, who marched on the County Court House in Washington, Pennsylvania, to demand relief, 1931.
As a final act of protest at the end of their unsuccessful hunger strike, students erect a statue called the Goddess of Democracy opposite Tian'an...
Left to right: Frank Comodeca, James McQuade, and Henry Osborn, three of the four convicts who were found dead in adjoining isolation cells in the...
Students from a Beijing nursing school look after hunger strikers during the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.
University Professor Gao Xin, hunger striker in June 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest, imprisoned for months, now unable to find job re...
University Professor Gao Xin, hunger striker in June 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest, imprisoned for months, now unable to find job re...
University Professor Gao Xin, hunger striker in June 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest, imprisoned for months, now unable to find job re...
University Professor Gao Xin, hunger striker in June 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest, imprisoned for months, now unable to find job re...
University Professor Gao Xin, hunger striker in June 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest, imprisoned for months, now unable to find job re...
University Professor Gao Xin, hunger striker in June 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest, imprisoned for months, now unable to find job re...
University Professor Gao Xin, hunger striker in June 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest, imprisoned for months, now unable to find job re...
The Reverend Ralph Abernathy said in a D.C. Jail news conference that he was beginning a fast "in order to strengthen myself for the fight ahead." He...
Out-Out. Washington: A group of screaming, struggling Iranian students were forceably expelled from the Iranian Embassy today by Washington Police....
Father, Son Accuse Each Other as Axe Murder Hunt Continues. Los Angeles, California: As police continued in their search for missing Mrs. Rose...
View of the cell corridor in the isolation house of the County Jail showing the steam pipes, which investigators charge were turned on full blast to...
New York, NY-Some of the 14 men and four women on a hunger strike at the headquarters of the "Comite Ortodoxo," followers of Cuban rebel leader Fidel...
Sinn Fein official Danny Morrison, pictured at Maze Prison this afternoon, after visiting hunger striker Sean McKenna is blind and in very poor...
In a cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a floral tribute to Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army freedom-fighter who died after a hunger-strike...
Miami, Fl.: Dade county police in gas masks and helmets push back a crowd of several hundred Haitian demonstrators outside the Krome Avenue detention...
Mexico City, Mexico-: Eight remaining hunger strikers enter their second month of protest against the Acer-Mex motorcycle company. The men are asking...
Mother of Harvey Church prays for her son on the eve of his execution. This is the mother of Harvey Church, the youthful slayer of two automobile...
Suffrage: Forcible feeding through the nose of English women suffragist prisoners, pronounced as dangerous by many leading members of the medical...
Members of various pacifist groups crowd the sidewalk in front of the United States Mission to the United Nations building in Manhattan, as they...
Sara Jane Moore, convicted of her attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1975, from her hospital bed at the Federal Correctional...
Washington, DC-: Joined by other demonstrators, homeless advocate Mitch Snyder talks with reporters from the steps of the District Building. Snyder,...
Cairo, Egypt-Doria Shafik, Egyptian sufragette leader , who has promised to fast until her native country allows demanded privileges, rests with...
United Farm Workers leader, Cesar Chavez, receives a small piece of bread from Ethel Kennedy during a mass, ending his 36-day fast over the reckless...
Provo, Utah.: Condemned killer Gary Gilmore, gaunt and pale on the 13th day of a hunger strike, is led into Utah County Courthouse. Fourth District...
Dublin, Ireland- This is a view of Dublin's General Post Office after the 1916 Easter Monday Rebellion.After that "insurrection" failed, there was...
Washington, D.C.- Quietly and curiously, without any sign of disorder, over 12,000 hunger marchers, brought from Pittsburgh, PA, Washington, D.C., by...
Washington, D.C.- Quietly and curiously, without any sign of disorder, over 12,000 hunger marchers, brought from Pittsburgh, PA, Washington, D.C., by...
Washington, D.C.- Quietly and curiously, without any sign of disorder, over 12,000 hunger marchers, brought from Pittsburgh, PA, Washington, D.C., by...
Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the militant Jewish Defense League, looks up from his Bible studies inside his jeep during his hunger strike outside the...
Group of dissident veterans were encamped in the office of Sen. Alan Cranston for two weeks, protesting their benefits and what they called...
Paris, France- Some cheering enthusiastically and others grimly silent, hunger marchers from the French Province arrived at the gates of Paris, after...
Gandhi Refuses to Abandon Fast. On the fourth day of his fast yesterday street fighting broke out between groups of Gandhi supporters and Hindu and...
Gary Gilmore arrives at the courthouse to hear a judge set a third date for his execution during his 25 day hunger strike
Standing in front of the British consulate, demonstrators burn British Prime Minister in effigy along with a British flag in response to the...
Jennifer Harbury, who staged hunger strike for release of husband Efrain Everardo Bamaca Velasquez by Guatemalan govt., standing in front of mural...
Univ. Prof. Gao Xin, hunger striker in June 1989 Tiananmen Sq. Pro-democracy protest, imprisoned for months, now unable to find job re his politics.
Univ. Prof. Gao Xin, hunger striker in June 1989 Tiananmen Sq. Pro-democracy protest, imprisoned for months, now unable to find job re his politics.
Univ. Prof. Gao Xin, hunger striker in June 1989 Tiananmen Sq. Pro-democracy protest, imprisoned for months, now unable to find job re his politics.
Univ. Prof. Gao Xin, hunger striker in June 1989 Tiananmen Sq. Pro-democracy protest, imprisoned for months, now unable to find job re his politics.
British armored cars provide reinforcements to the troops guarding the 104 Sinn Fein prisoners who are on a hunger strike in Dublin Prison, Dublin,...