Tag: hunger strike

• Wednesday, March 19th 2025 - 19:53 UTC

  Peru: Pedro Castillo drops hunger strike at the request of his children

  

  Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Terrones suspended temporarily his “dry hunger strike” but insisted he would not be appearing at his trial for his failed coup d'état in 2022 because it was all a masquerade with his conviction already announced by a biased court. “As a tactical decision, and at the request of my children, my parents, and our beloved Peruvian people, I have decided to temporarily suspend it,” he wrote on social media.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Mapuche leader on hunger strike reaches understanding with Chilean government

  

  A Chilean indigenous leader who has spent more than 100 days on hunger strike over his detention during the coronavirus pandemic has agreed to end it after negotiations with the government, the justice minister said on Tuesday.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  UN sends fact finding mission to Chile where Mapuches are on hunger strike

  

  The United Nations has sent a fact-finding team to Chile's restive Araucania region where a jailed Indigenous Mapuche leader has spent more than 100 days on a hunger strike over his detention during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 19:31 UTC

  The 34 hunger striker Mapuches in Chile has become world news

  

  Chile’s government said this week it will be impossible to meet demands by 34 Mapuche hunger strikers that all three branches of Chile’s government meet together to resolve the on-going hunger strike.