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He also began a 21-day Climate Fast hunger strike for giving statehood to Union Territory Ladakh under the Sixth Schedule. [75] [76] On 30 September 2024, during his walk by foot from Ladakh to Delhi for their demands, Wangchuk and his supporters were detained by Delhi Police at the Singhu border and were released on 2 October 2024. [77]
Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, MVC is an Indian Army veteran, who served with the Assam Regiment and the Ladakh Scouts. He was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra , India's second highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy, during his successful operation in the Kargil War .
[96] [97] Sonam Wangchuk went on a hunger strike demanding statehood. [98] Mahakoshal: Madhya Pradesh: Chhindwara, Dindori, Jabalpur, Katni, Mandla, Narsinghpur, Seoni: Mahakoshal is a region which lies in the upper or eastern reaches of the Narmada River valley in Madhya Pradesh.
A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance where participants fast as an act of political protest, usually with the objective of achieving a specific goal, such as a policy change. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Hunger strikers that do not take fluids are named dry hunger strikers .
Indonesian domestic workers and activists began a hunger strike on Monday to protest against the parliament's delay in passing a bill to protect domestic workers. Sunrise-to-sunset fasting ...
The 1992 Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike was a widespread hunger strike undertaken by Palestinians in Israeli custody in the autumn of 1992. One Palestinian prisoner died as a result of the hunger strike, while several Palestinian were killed and several hundred injured by Israeli forces in demonstrations in support of the prisoners.
South Korea's main opposition leader was hospitalised on Monday, days into a hunger strike in protest against government policies, while prosecutors sought an arrest warrant for him over ...
(Reuters) - Inmates in 20 jails and detention facilities in Venezuela have ended a week-long hunger strike to protest against conditions and delays in judicial reviews after reaching a deal with ...