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15 Facts About Irom Sharmila

1.

Irom Sharmila ended the fast on 9 August 2016, after 16 long years of fasting.

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Irom Sharmila was then denied the right to vote as a person confined in jail cannot vote according to law.

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3.

Irom Sharmila was re-arrested on 22 August 2014 on similar charges to those for which she was acquitted, and remanded in judicial custody for 15 days.

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4.

Irom Sharmila was already involved in local peace movements with regard to human rights abuses in Manipur when, on 2 November 2000, in Malom, a town in the Imphal Valley of Manipur, ten civilians were shot and killed while waiting at a bus stop.

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Irom Sharmila, who was 28 at the time of Malom Massacre, began to fast in protest.

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6.

Irom Sharmila has been regularly released and re-arrested every year since her hunger strike began.

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Irom Sharmila only met her mother once during the fast, as she believed that seeing her mother's anguish might have broken her resolve.

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8.

Irom Sharmila kept her vow of neither entering her house nor meeting her mother until the government repeals AFSPA and went to continue her fast at Shahid Minar, Imphal on the same day of her release.

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Irom Sharmila was again arrested by the police under the same charge of attempt to commit suicide by means of indefinite fast.

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10.

On 26 July 2016, Irom Sharmila, who had been on a hunger strike since 2000, announced that she would end her fast on 9 August 2017.

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11.

Irom Sharmila announced that she would contest the next state elections in Manipur.

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12.

Irom Sharmila was awarded the 2007 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights, which is given to "an outstanding person or group, active in the promotion and advocacy of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights".

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Irom Sharmila shared the award with Lenin Raghuvanshi of People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights, a northeastern Indian human rights organisation.

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14.

In 2019, after the death of Gauri Lankesh, Irom Sharmila criticized the NDA government, accusing it of disregarding people's sentiments when making policy decisions.

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15.

On Thursday 17 August 2017, Irom Sharmila Chanu married her British partner Desmond Anthony Bellarnine Coutinho in Kodaikanal, a hill station in Tamil Nadu.

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