Seasoned prison doctors, who have spent whole careers working in prison environments, will be best at handling such prisoners, carefully balancing respect for the patient with a firm approach on what they can and should do from a medical point of view. Labor unions promote higher wages. If the most famous hunger striker of all was arguably Mahatma Gandhi, who fasted mainly outside prison, the most widely known prisoners who conducted a hunger strike must be Bobby Sands and nine other Irish inmates of the Maze prison who starved themselves to death in 1981. 111 million drams from Mikael Vardanyan to 157 disabled children of Tavush. Since costs tend to grow over time, teams cut budgets instead of looking at costs. Disadvantages of Agrarian Culture. (In the few cases where prisoners were threatening to go on dry strikes, i e with no intake of water either, the author was always able to persuade them not to do it and to limit their fasting to solid foods, as a dry strike could very quickly produce serious and perhaps irreversible health problems. Moreover, Dr Kalk considered that their detention without trial constituted a form of torture, and refused to discharge the patients back into detention after they had recovered from the effects of the hunger strike. Real hunger strikes involve actual fasting , which has to be voluntary and has to be pursued for a specific purpose . The motive behind the refusal of food is completely different from that of the preceding category, as is also the way in which it is carried out. Pressure to deliver within time; The hunger savers have to work under immense pressure such that the food they deliver stays in Malta offers doctors the opportunity to give the fasting prisoner a last chance. Another member of the group, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, started a hunger strike in September 2013 to protest against prison conditions. Even in the midst of extreme suffering, these behaviors may be considered as a method for prisoners to reclaim control and autonomy over their life. A joint project of Galaxy Group of Companies and theState Symphony Orchestra of Armenia, Largest Corporate Bond Program at the Securities Market of Armenia Completed Successfully, A willpower to live the life re-found. If the prisoner has clearly stated that he refuses to be force-fed, then the doctor must use his clinical and moral judgement to do his best for the patient. It is mostly used by those who have no other form of protest available -- usually prisoners. This may be difficult or even impossible for the prison doctor himself. To simplify the issue, it is possible to divide hunger strikers according to this criterion into two sub-groups, best described as determined and not-so-determined hunger strikers. It should hardly be necessary to state that any form of religious fasting clearly has nothing to do with hunger strikes. If refusing fluids, too, death can come after one week. One typical prison doctor made it known early on to hunger-striking prisoners that, because of his profound religious principles, he would not tolerate any prisoner starving himself to death, and would not hesitate to order them to be force-fed at an early stage (in a country of Latin America in the late eighties). The episode, which resulted in several deaths (some of the prisoners ended their hunger strikes to eat poison) became known as the "Kara tragedy" and the prison was closed soon after. Article 5 of the Tokyo Declaration also stipulates that prisoners on hunger strikes shall not be force-fed, though few doctors know exactly why this clause is included. When analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches, it is important to recognize that persistent hunger benefits some people. 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What was the immediate motivation for suffragists to embark on hunger strikes? patient experiences mixed feelings while on fasting. Jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny began his hunger strike on March 31, 2021. chronicle of Azerbaijani actions, Ucom sponsored the 90th anniversary celebration of the "Bookinist" bookstore. Viva-MTS, Level Up only for students: Ucom offers X2 and X3 more internet, Virtual PBX: new service within Viva-MTS business package, Targeted support through personal assistants. There is also a need to know whether there are any medical contraindications to fasting among the prisoners who undertake the strike, who then have a right to know of any negative implications for their health. In many cases, they wanted to know more about what they were getting themselves into, and requested information about the effects of hunger strikes. One of these strikes started in solidarity with a prisoner, Yelizaveta Kovalskaya, who had been violently transferred after she had allegedly insulted a visiting official. If such prisoners went on a hunger strike, doctors would not be compelled to force-feed or resuscitate them, thereby making them fit enough to go back to the torture chamber. This deals exclusively with the issue of voluntary total fasting and the doctors role vis--vis prisoners in such circumstances, without making any reference to situations of torture. As people suffering from malnutrition are not able to do any hard Any such outside intervention was totally unacceptable in the (northern) Irish hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981. Artsakh MFA, Statement on the 33rd anniversary of the Armenian pogroms in Baku, -Evoca Mobile POS: mPOS. Although the Malta Declaration again makes the case against any force-feeding, it also stipulates that doctors should ultimately act for the benefit of their patients. Taunting and baiting by guards may trap a prisoner into an intransigent position, whereas he might otherwise have been willing to compromise. Hunger strikes were relatively frequent among political prisoners in Latin American countries during the 1980s and early 1990s. The WMA 1975 Declaration of Tokyo and the WMA 1991 Declaration of Malta both prohibit the use of force-feeding. When telling the author about his experience, he first protested vehemently at not having his wishes respected by the prison doctor. To be valid in law, a strike must be conducted by a trade union and must As will be seen, voluntary total fasting is in fact not always voluntary or total. It also states that doctors should not participate in the force-feeding of prisoners. What they have The idea is to drum up sympathy from any available sources, inside or outside the prison system. Hunger or malnutrition not only affect the health of people but it also ruin future generations. Medical contraindications to a hunger strike, such as metabolic diseases (diabetes, etc. She launched several hunger strikes, including one that was 83 days long. She ended her monthlong protest due to concerns over the health of one of her aides who had joined the hunger strike in solidarity. Braggs method allows fasting for no more than 21 days every year after certain adaptation procedures. In this sense the reactive food refuser will cling to the prison doctor, whom he will expect to monitor him, preferably place him under observation in hospital, and take whatever measures are necessary to keep him in good health. A long-term fasting totally eliminates the feeling of depression, says Karine Sargsyan, a proctologist and gastroenterologist. While we are ready for dialogue with Azerbaijan, we have red lines, that we will not violate. * Re: UCI, Protesters Ignore Deadline (Oct. 29). Many prisoners who refuse food are not really hunger strikers, and have no intention of endangering their health. The real reason for Article 5 is, however, different (personal communication by Dr. Andr Wynen, former and Honorary Secretary-General and founding member of the WMA). When you hold some people back (whites and Asians in this case) and nudge others forward (Hispanics in this case), thats racial discrimination! Article 5, which deals with hunger strikes and specifically prohibits force-feeding, was meant to provide support for doctors confronted with prisoners who were victims of torture. (This sometimes led to bitter arguments, with some hunger strikers telling their families they would never forgive them if they broke the strike by asking for medical assistance on their behalf. The refusers aims are in a sense partially satisfied, however, in that the authorities nearly always refer to him as a hunger striker, albeit perhaps an habitual one. As soon became clear, the hunger strikes in Ulster were deadly serious, with a total of ten prisoners dying over several months. Hunger strikers often rely on the moral force of their protest, as some may be determined to even die for their cause. In many of these hunger strikes prisoners decided to abandon their fast, after receiving medical advice on their specific conditions. If, however, a prisoner at an advanced stage of a hunger strike is restored to consciousness or to a physiological situation where there can be no doubt about his state of mind, and that prisoner clearly indicates disapproval of the doctors action, then the doctor should be prepared to step back and not intervene again. All these external factors cannot simply be ignored. She later said that, in an attempt to turn other prisoners against her, prison officials locked inmates in their rooms and restricted their movement. Other suffragettes followed her example. Depending on the duration, [the organism] may normalize at the expense of compensatory mechamisms, she said, adding that such hormonal changes depend on the organisms predisposition. The most immediate example is of Muslim prisoners who have refused food at the beginning of Ramadan and been accused in certain cases of going on hunger strike, unable as they were to dispel their captors ignorance because they did not speak the same language. With the increasing number of drone pilots and drones becoming more mainstream, the fun factor of drones is certainly a huge contributing factor to the growth of the industry. Hunger-strike, as a form of a political struggle, is quite widely spread in the history of the newly independent Armenia. Hunger strikes have always been associated with some form of protest. In the following years, there were also several hunger strikes by female political prisoners in Siberia, which were "remarkable given the relatively small number of female political prisoners sent" there. We are going to remain deeply engaged in diplomacy to end the violence. cleaning is necessary. They get to play Cesar Chavez, Pancho Villa and Mario Savio (1964 Berkeley student revolt) rolled into one. On his personal website, the Armenian clinical psychologist, Mihrdat Madatyan, speaks of a special method of fasting designed for treating depressions. 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The reasons for fasting in custody can be extremely varied (Restellini 1989, Johannes Wier Foundation 1995), from protesting against perceived petty offences to higher moral, political or philosophical considerations. Speaking to Tert.am, Nona Martirosyan, an endocrinologist, explained the hormonal changes caused by fasting. Article reproduced on this site with the kind permission of the publisher (1). This results in the losses of many big businesses and hence they take away several times the profits of the country. situations of torture. South Africa Med J 83: 391-394, Kalk WJ, Veriawa Y (1991) Hospital management of voluntary total fasting among political prisoners. Extract from the publication "Maltreatment and Torture", in the series Research in Legal Medicine - Volume 19 / Rechtsmedizinische Forschungsergebnisse - Band 19. Certainly not. It was also doctors from the South African Medical Association (MASA) who initiated a WMA review of ethical guidelines on hunger strikes, and contacted the author on the subject in 1990. State Department, There is no word yet on sending CSTO peacekeeping troops to Armenia, we hope that the conflict will be resolved peacefully. WebDuring a strike, workers refuse to work in order to get more money or better working conditions. The term hunger strike can refer to a wide variety of situations. (During a hunger strike). Doctors should be attentive to patients of this sort, as they may well be medical cases that require medical attention they do not actually ask for. Amerstoort/NL, Kalk WJ, Felix M, Snoey ER, Veriawa Y (1993) Voluntary total fasting in political prisoners: Clinical and biochemical observations. On April 6, 2016, she started a "dry" hunger strike, refusing both food and fluids. A political prisoner on hunger strike was eventually force-fed, as stipulated by the prison rules inherited from the former Soviet Union, once he was semi-conscious and too weak to resist an intravenous drip. After making his point, however, he quietly admitted that he was, in fact, happy to be alive. Reactive food refusers have been said to give hunger strikes a bad name (to quote a prison director in an Anglo-Saxon prison system), in that ultimately their strikes are not taken seriously, and prison doctors find their empathy severely taxed when they are confronted repeatedly with such patients, who are usually very demanding. But Ill tell you one thing: The solution is not in instituting racial and ethnic set-asides, quotas and preferences as most affirmative action programs have tried to do for the last 30 years. This is a simplistic approach to the issue which wrongly reduces it to purely medical terms: namely, that since any doctor would come to the assistance of someone who attempts suicide, so hunger strikers should be assisted (i e force-fed) to prevent them from killing themselves. Patients under treatment in psychiatric hospitals are known to have fully overcome mental problems after two or three weeks of fasting under doctors observation. The first is that the students are really enjoying this. TERT AM, LLC Address: 1 Charents Str., Yerevan, Armenia, 0025 Tel: +374 41 768838 E-Mail: [emailprotected] Contact number for ads: 044 030320, The opinions expressed on the website do not have to coincide with the editorial staffs viewpoints.The website bears no responsibility for the content of ads and press review Terms and ConditionsPrivacy Policy. This will naturally only have a chance of working if it is widely known that he is fasting. It is also extremely painful and can cause serious bleeding or other complications. No further comment will be made on the latter, however, as they do not have the same implications as hunger strikes for medical action and ethics. The Geneva-based organizations visits to prisoners around the world are just one part of its varied work protecting victims of conflict and violence everywhere. Consciously or subconsciously, according to context, culture and intellect, he will expect to be taken care of long before there is any danger to his health from fasting. (The masculine gender will be used exclusively from here onwards to lighten the text.) Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, The actor, the hairstylist and the eye surgeon: Drugs and death in a Malibu beach house, Have guests in town? She was later moved to a different prison. (Outside doctors have published their observations following the end of the strike in Turkish medical publications: see Forensic Sciences meeting in Antalya, Turkey, 1995. In the authors experience, many a hunger striker has been convinced to stop fasting just by explaining that his underlying gastritis could lead to a perforated ulcer and consequently a dramatic end to the hunger strike. Are all such cas es of fasting genuine hunger strikes? In a few cases, it was the families of prisoners who asked doctors to intervene at an advanced stage to save their sons'lives, a request that was complied with. In any case, its a good excuse not to go to class. It is estimated that if a protester is healthy before going on a hunger strike, and continues to receive fluids, he or she is at risk of dying from malnutrition after six to eight weeks. Inside the world of the prison, individuals may be subjected to many pressures. 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This is a loss that is difficult to make up over time. Such an action is often aimed at protesting prison conditions, achieving a policy change, or bringing attention to a certain case or cause. In cases of real voluntary total fasting, usually by politically motivated prisoners or prisoners supporting a specific cause, be it ethnic, religious or otherwise, there may be a will to go all the way and accept the physiological consequences of a prolonged fast. In fact, this is the one type of hunger striker whose action may perhaps - though not always - be legitimately described as being not unlike attempted suicide. Hunger helps the organism overcome the ordinary monotonous condition. In other situations, however, forcible nourishment will be a crucial issue, and will lead to much soul-searching for the physicians involved. It is essential to know exactly what the situation is to be able to respond in the most constructive way and avoid making false assumptions. The person may experience difficulty swallowing, vertigo, hearing and vision loss, and possible organ failure. While the loss of muscle mass may be significant, a person usually dies because of an infection or organ failure. A doctor from the outside, such as an ICRC doctor visiting prisoners, can arrange to s peak with individual hunger-striking prisoners in private, and thus be in a better position to determine the exact motivation behind the strike. The Yoga methods of fasting have a much longer history. What will that do for me? He said, Well, you can graduate with only a 2.4 [grade-point average]! To which I replied: Thats stupid! When I was a graduate student at Cal State Long Beach in the early 1970s, some guy came up to me and said, Hey your last name is Hernandez, you should try to get into the program for Mexican Americans. I replied, Why? Distinct from the food refusers are the actual hunger strikers, i e prisoners who undergo a substantial period of voluntary total fasting for a specific purpose. go on a hunger strike, of course I have to order them to be force-fed to save their lives . This act by a doctor, which has become known as Kalks refusal, is an example of precisely what was intended by the hunger strike proviso of the Tokyo Declaration. After a 21-day protest in Liberty Square, he is going to end his hunger-strike later on Sunday. advantage of manual harvesting it is efficient. The key element here is that, for the hunger strike to work, the reactive refuser has to make as much noise about it as possible. Although all involve a certain degree of fasting, they vary greatly in their impact on health and in the ethical dilemmas they may ultimately cause. In such cases it can be argued that ensuring the patients welfare means allowing fasting prisoners the last possibility of freedom of action, and letting them at least die with dignity. When they had recovered, the suffragettes were taken back to prison to finish their sentences. In its work over the years with prisoners throughout the world, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has come across many different types of hunger strikes - and food refusal too. Ameriabank concludes its Triple Best campaign, which was launched to celebrate the Banks recognition as the Best Bank of Armenia for 2022 by leading international publications such as The Banker, Global Finance, and Euromoney. It is important, particularly for the medical personnel involved, to differentiate these various types of prisoners from the outset, as the way the situation is approached and handled will also vary greatly in each case. What are the advantages and disadvantages of union strikes? And what sparked the first major hunger strike believed to have been held in Russia? Here are some of the key points to consider. Others discreetly requested medical assistance, for example in the form of a transfer to the sick-bay, where they could resume nourishment without losing face, since an intervention of this sort from an outside doctor was viewed as acceptable. They must be taken into due consideration by any doctor who deals with the hunger strikers. In fact the dividing line between conscious protest and the onset of actual depression may be very hard to establish. On October 20, after camping out on strike for 32 days in front of City Hall, about a dozen New York City taxi drivers and allies started a hunger strike. Theyve got themselves convinced that they are noble martyrs to some lofty cause. He was protesting his medical treatment after his personal doctors were not allowed to examine him when he complained of pain in his legs and back. Within the next week, he or she may suffer from vision loss or other neurological problems. The whole idea of separating how we deal with each other in terms of oppressed, racial and ethnic victim categories was patently ridiculous and unworkable in the first place. The prison doctors respected the expressed will of the hunger strikers, and force-feeding was not envisaged at any time. WebDISADVANTAGES OF BEING A HUNGER SAVER. The term is used to justify the refusal of food, possibly to give it some sort of noble justification. skill person required. (1) Verlag Schmidt-Rmhild, Mengstr. She was forced to end the fast after nine days due to her health. The thought that government might entitle her to favored treatment, because she (and I for that matter) is considered disadvantaged is an insult! And in 2018, prominent Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov didn't eat for 145 days, calling for the release of Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russia. In countries where prisoners rights are not fully respected or even completely disregarded, and where torture is practised; hunger strikes may be a last resort for prisoners wanting to protest against their situation. Next, a few thoughts on the disadvantages and advantages of the Law, I will be also answering the question if the three strike law policies are unfair. An opposition candidate running in the February 18 presidential election, Andrias Ghukasytan, conducted a 30-day hunger-strike ahead of the voting as a sign of protest against electoral processes in Armenia. As is well known, the World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Tokyo of 1975 prohibits any participation in torture, whether actively, passively or through use of medical knowledge, by a medical doctor. The solution is for one to recognize reality, and figure out ways to overcome it. See also Ismir in the last hunger strikes Dr. Zaki Gul, in Toplum ve Hekim, Eyll-Aralik 1996.) 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