Desperate Measures

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As activists fight for reform under authoritarian regimes, some have turned to increasingly desperate measures. In Azerbaijan, two jailed editors of opposition newspapers, Qanimat Zahid and Eynulla Fatullayev, launched a hunger strike in March to demand the release of all imprisoned journalists in the country. Other journalists have joined the strike to support their jailed colleagues.
 
Azerbaijan – Journalists on 8th day of a hunger strike to protest what they call continued government harassment, Baku, 02Apr2008 Azerbaijan - Emin Huseynov in hunger strike protesting dismissal of students Turan Aliyev and Namik Feyziyev from their universities, Jan2006 Georgia -- Opposition supporters hold a hunger strike in a makeshift tent camp near the parliament in central Tbilis, 12Mar2008 Georgia -- Parliamentarian Bidzina Gujabidze on a hunger strike outside the Parliament building in Tbilisi, 11Mar2008 Belarus – protest of the hunger-strikers Syarhey Skrabets, Alyaksandar Skrabets, Tatsyana Vanina on the October square, Minsk, 20Mar2008 Belarus -- Alyaksandr Kozulin with his daughters Yulia (R) and Volha (L) near portrait of his deceased wife Iryna at their home in Minsk, 26Feb2008 Kyrgyzstan -- Kyrgyz opposition supporters sit inside a traditional yurt tent built by hunger strickers in front of the Parliament in central Bishkek, 07Apr2007.
 

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