Yawn, how many hunger strikes is this?

The Herald reports:

The whānau of a man on a hunger strike to protest constitutional injustices says he was close to death when the court ruled Francis Shaw has the right to make his own decisions, even if he could die.

Shaw, a Rimutaka Prison inmate, is now 92 days into his hunger strike.

“He was going to die if he didn’t have any fluids, that’s a definite,” his brother Cameron said.

Shaw, who was jailed for 10 and a half months on charges of common assault, assault with a weapon, and possessing an offensive weapon, told prison staff on July 17 he was on a hunger strike and had not eaten since arriving there two days earlier.

I’ve lost track of how many hunger strikes Shaw has had. Hew doesn’t seem to be very good at them.

I think his first one was in 1989!

In 2020 he wanted a Maori Parliament.

In 2021 he was striking for a written constitution.

There’s been lots of stories about his various hunger strikes in prison. Sadly very few stories about all the victims of his criminal offending.