hunger strike
Enable an AI agent to recognise a hunger strike, record its demands and evolving state, and distinguish authorised support from actions that override participants' choices.
Research draft, second pass
A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.
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Researched by: Codex
Purpose and description
Enable an AI agent to recognise a hunger strike, record its demands and evolving state, and distinguish authorised support from actions that override participants' choices.
A hunger strike is a deliberate refusal of food by a person or group as a form of protest intended to press demands, draw attention to grievances, or influence an authority or audience.
It can be Identify candidate hunger-strike episodes and flag uncertain protest intent or involuntary deprivation.; Construct participant-specific timelines of declarations, reported intake, withdrawals, and institutional responses.; Compare demands with attributed promises and evidence of implementation.; Prepare an attributed briefing that preserves conflicting accounts and protects sensitive participant information.; Route requests for independent care, representation, or communication through authorised contacts.; Record suspension or termination without assuming either a successful campaign or completed recovery..
Distinguishing features
Food refusal is connected to an expressed or credibly documented grievance or demand; duration without eating alone does not identify a hunger strike.
Evidence distinguishes participant-chosen refusal from unavailable food or externally imposed deprivation, while allowing mixed or disputed circumstances.
A bounded episode of refusal can be identified separately from the wider campaign that uses it.
The participant's declared intake terms are recorded explicitly; the label does not establish whether fluids, supplements, or intermittent intake are included.
Collective designation does not establish each participant's consent, start time, intake pattern, or decision to continue.
Scope
+ The grievance, demands, intended audience, and communicative use of food refusal
+ Individual participation, collective coordination, and freedom to join or withdraw
+ Declared food-refusal terms and reported intake over time
+ Participant-specific welfare concerns, expressed care preferences, and access to independent support
+ Negotiations, institutional responses, suspension, termination, and disputed outcomes
- Religious fasting, dietary restriction, or food refusal without an established protest purpose
- Food deprivation caused by scarcity, confinement, or another actor withholding food
- Diagnosis and treatment of malnutrition, dehydration, or other medical conditions
- The complete political campaign, movement, or dispute surrounding the strike
- General detention administration and jurisdiction-wide legal rules
- News reports, photographs, and other media works as independently managed artifacts
Characteristics
- Episode status
- announced | underway | suspended | ended | disputed | unknown Separates a threatened or announced strike from an episode with evidence of participation.
- Demand and addressee
- Participant or authorised representative → stated demand → intended respondent Identifies what the refusal seeks to change and who is being asked to act.
- Declared intake terms
- Participant-stated exclusions and allowances for food, fluids, supplements, and medicines; unspecified where unknown Prevents the strike label from substituting for the actual terms of refusal.
- Participation interval
- Start and end timestamps with precision and uncertainty; elapsed hours or days Supports timelines without treating all participants as having identical exposure.
- Reported intake
- Timestamped substance, amount when known, reporting source, and confidence Keeps observed or reported behaviour distinct from announced terms and allegations.
- Participation voluntariness
- affirmed by participant | concerns reported | disputed | not assessed Makes pressure to participate, continue, or stop visible without inferring consent from membership.
- Care preferences and consent
- Participant → specific proposed assessment or intervention → expressed preference or consent record, with date Avoids treating refusal of food as a blanket decision about every form of care.
- Demand outcome
- unanswered | rejected | negotiating | promised | partly implemented | implemented | disputed | unknown Distinguishes an announcement or concession from verified change.
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 6 bundles · 11 layers · 18 findings · 28 questions.
Refusal as protest Establishes why the food refusal constitutes a hunger strike and what it seeks to communicate.
Food refusal alone cannot establish protest intent, a demand, or an intended respondent.
Intent and boundary
Distinguishes protest refusal from other reasons for not eating.
Documented protest purpose
Records attributed evidence connecting refusal to a grievance while retaining uncertainty about motive.
- What participant statement or other evidence connects the refusal to a grievance or demand? provenance
- What distinguishes this episode from religious fasting, illness-related refusal, unavailable food, or imposed deprivation? boundary
Demands and audiences
Captures requested changes and the actors expected to respond or bear witness.
Demand-to-respondent link
Keeps each demand, its author, its intended respondent, and revisions identifiable.
- What change is requested, and which actor is addressed as able to deliver it? definition
- Who issued or revised the demand, and what evidence establishes their authority to speak for the named participants? provenance
Participants and agency Represents individual participation within solitary, coordinated, or rotating strikes.
Collective accounts can obscure differences in consent, exposure, representation, and withdrawal.
Participation membership
Separates participants from organisers, supporters, representatives, and observers.
Individual participation record
Records who is reported to be refusing food and during which intervals, with appropriate identity protection.
- Who is participating directly, and who is acting only as an organiser, supporter, or spokesperson? boundary
- What source establishes each participant's start, pauses, withdrawal, or re-entry? provenance
Voluntariness and representation
Captures participants' own choices and the limits of collective authority.
Choice to continue or withdraw
Preserves individual statements about participation and reports of pressure from any actor.
- What evidence records the participant's current choice and any pressure to begin, continue, or end the refusal? provenance
- Which decisions may a representative communicate, and which require the participant's own instruction? action
Intake and episode course Tracks declared refusal terms, reported behaviour, and changes over time.
The meaning and course of a hunger strike cannot be inferred from its label or a single collective day count.
Declared refusal terms
Records the participant's stated boundaries for intake and their revisions.
Food and fluid boundaries
Makes explicit what is refused, permitted, or unspecified without imposing a universal strike protocol.
- Which foods, fluids, supplements, or medicines does the participant say they will refuse or accept? definition
- When did these terms change, and who documented the change? provenance
Reported course
Maintains an evidence-based chronology without equating every intake event with termination.
Intake and interruption timeline
Separates declarations, self-reports, observations, disputed allegations, and imposed intake.
- What intake or interruption was reported, at what time, by which source, and with what uncertainty? measurement
- Was the event participant-chosen, imposed, or unclear, and how did it affect the declared episode status? boundary
Welfare, consent, and care Links participant welfare and care decisions to appropriately attributed assessments and expressed preferences.
An agent must recognise care needs and autonomy questions without deriving clinical decisions from protest status.
Welfare and care access
Records reported concerns and access to qualified, independent assistance.
Attributed welfare assessment
Links concerns and professional assessments while keeping clinical interpretation in the care model.
- What welfare concerns or professional assessments are available, when were they recorded, and who supplied them? provenance
- What assistance has the participant requested, and what barriers affect access to independent assessment or care? action
Care decision boundaries
Distinguishes consent to particular interventions from participation in the strike.
Intervention-specific preferences
Records current and prior expressed wishes, relevant assessments, and contested interventions without inventing authority.
- What has the participant expressed about each proposed assessment, treatment, or feeding intervention, and when? provenance
- What qualified review of consent, decision-making capacity, and applicable requirements is needed before acting on a contested intervention? action
Responses and resolution Tracks communication, negotiation, institutional action, and the end of the episode.
Stopping food refusal, securing a promise, implementing a demand, and recovering are distinct developments.
Communications and responses
Connects participant-authorised messages with attributed responses and observable actions.
Response to stated demands
Records offers, refusals, restrictions, and other responses alongside their sources and contested interpretations.
- What did each respondent say or do in response to the strike, and what evidence supports that account? provenance
- Which strike statements or participant details may the agent share, with whom, and under whose authorisation? action
Ending and follow-through
Separates individual cessation, collective closure, demand implementation, and continuing care.
Termination and outcome evidence
Records how the episode ended and which claimed outcomes remain unverified.
- Who ended or suspended participation, when, and on what stated grounds, including any disagreement with a collective announcement? provenance
- What evidence distinguishes promised concessions from implemented changes, and what follow-up remains unresolved? measurement
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Check these first
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- This describes the protest practice; the supplied domain code INF.MED does not establish a narrower sense.
- Terminology and permitted intake vary; a reported hunger strike does not necessarily mean complete abstention from calories or fluids.
- Named ethical instruments are recalled without source verification; their current wording and jurisdiction-specific legal application require checking.
- Which of these check these first hold for the sense of hunger strike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Kinds and varieties
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- Individual hunger strike
- Collective hunger strike
- Time-limited hunger strike
- Indefinite hunger strike
- Relay hunger strike
- Dry hunger strike, involving refusal of fluids as well as food
- Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of hunger strike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Standards and regulation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- World Medical Association Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikers: ethical guidance concerning autonomy, informed refusal, clinical independence, and artificial feeding.
- World Medical Association Declaration of Tokyo: ethical guidance for physicians concerning detention and torture, including refusal of nourishment by prisoners capable of an unimpaired and rational judgment.
- United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, known as the Nelson Mandela Rules: general standards for prison health care, clinical independence, and informed consent.
- Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of hunger strike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Protesting prison conditions, detention, or treatment in custody.
- Pressing political demands or seeking recognition of rights.
- Drawing public and media attention to grievances.
- Expressing solidarity through coordinated or relay protests.
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of hunger strike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Typical measurements
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- Duration of food refusal - No defining duration threshold or universal typical range - days
- Number of participants - One person to large groups - persons
- Change in body mass from baseline - Variable; does not by itself establish severity - %
- Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of hunger strike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
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- Prolonged food refusal can cause malnutrition, muscle loss, organ dysfunction, and death.
- Refusal of fluids adds a risk of rapid dehydration and kidney injury.
- Electrolyte disturbances can cause dangerous cardiac and neurological complications.
- Resumption of nutrition after prolonged deprivation can cause refeeding syndrome.
- Coercion, disputed decision-making capacity, and non-consensual feeding can create serious ethical conflicts and risks of harm.
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of hunger strike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Regional variation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Legal approaches to artificial feeding, refusal of treatment, and state duties toward detained people vary by jurisdiction.
- The political significance and customary forms of hunger strikes vary across protest traditions and detention settings.
- Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of hunger strike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
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- Fasting - Fasting includes abstention for religious, medical, or personal reasons; a hunger strike uses food refusal as protest.
- Starvation - Starvation is a physiological state caused by inadequate nutrition; a hunger strike is an intentional protest action that may produce that state.
- Food insecurity - Food insecurity concerns unreliable access to adequate food; a hunger strike concerns intentional refusal as protest.
- Eating disorder - An eating disorder is a clinical condition; protest-motivated food refusal alone does not establish such a diagnosis.
- Labor strike - A labor strike applies pressure through withdrawal of labor; a hunger strike applies pressure through refusal of food.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of hunger strike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- What rationale supports the registry placement INF / INF.MED, and does an existing world model already own hunger strikes as protest episodes?
- Which evidence standard should establish protest intent when a participant cannot communicate directly or accounts conflict?
- How should episode identity handle rotating participants, temporary pauses, changed intake terms, and renewed strikes over the same demands?
- Which jurisdiction-specific legal requirements and professional ethical guidance govern disputed care, capacity assessments, confidentiality, and feeding interventions?
- What minimum participant-level information is necessary for useful tracking without exposing identities, health details, or communications beyond their authorised audience?