hunger strike

hunger strike

English

Noun

hunger strike (plural hunger strikes)

1. a fast undertaken as a means of protest, often by a prisoner
   • 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):

     Alekhina has become a vocal advocate for prisoners’ rights, a sort of jailhouse lawyer who has exposed numerous violations, filed copious complaints, and, in May, held an 11-day hunger strike that succeeded in changing conditions in her penal colony.

Translations

a fast undertaken as a means of protest

Armenian: հացադուլ (hy) (hacʿadul) Bashkir: аслыҡ (aslïq) Basque: gose greba Belarusian: галадо́ўка f (haladóŭka) Catalan: vaga de fam f Chinese: Mandarin: 絕食 (zh), 绝食 (zh) (juéshí) Czech: hladovka (cs) f Dutch: hongerstaking (nl) f Finnish: nälkälakko (fi) French: grève de faim f German: Hungerstreik (de) m Gujarati: ભૂખહડતાળ (bhūkhhaḍtāḷ) Hungarian: éhségsztrájk (hu) Icelandic: hungurverkfall (is) n

Irish: stailc ocrais f Japanese: ハンガー・ストライキ (hangā-sutoraiki), ハンスト (ja) (hansuto) Kalmyk: харһнлт (xarhnlt) Korean: 단식파업 (dansikpa-eop) Lithuanian: bado streikas Malay: mogok lapar Polish: głodówka (pl) f Portuguese: greve de fome f Russian: голодо́вка (ru) f (golodóvka) Slovak: hladovka f Southern Altai: торолош (toroloş) Spanish: huelga de hambre (es) f Swedish: hungerstrejk (sv) c Ukrainian: голодо́вка f (holodóvka), голоді́вка f (holodívka) Vietnamese: tuyệt thực (vi)