Irom Sharmila has finally ended her sixteen year long hunger strike, which was due to the fact that 10 civilians were killed in India. She was 29 when she started and is now 45 years old.

Her campaign, the world’s longest hunger strike, has lead her to be force fed through a tube for over a decade. She was under a law that makes trying to commit suicide a crime.

A court in North-Eastern Manipur State said that she could go on bail but asked her to return weeks later. She spent most of the 16 years in judicial custody in a hospital in Imphal (Manipur’s capital). Whilst she was there, she was force fed a cocktail of medicines and baby formulas. Her protest had won her world-wide recognition.

By Abigail and Amber, Year 7.