1.   But a handful of prisoners continued to refuse meals to protest their detention.

2.   David Hicks, an Australian whose family is protesting his detention.

3.   For most of that time, he has been on a hunger strike to protest his detention.

4.   It happened after the US government asked for the release of the brothers and after several well-known writers protested the detention.

5.   Pilots also are protesting the detention of some pilots who were aboard three oil tankers that ran aground in the last six weeks in the Maracaibo shipping channel.

6.   Pilots are also protesting the detention of the pilots who were onboard three grounded oil tankers.

7.   Pilots also are protesting the detention of pilots who were aboard three oil tankers that ran aground over the last six weeks.

8.   Pilots also are protesting the detention of pilots who were aboard three oil tankers that ran aground in the last six weeks in the Maracaibo shipping channel.

9.   Pilots are also protesting the detention of the pilots who were onboard the three grounded oil tankers.

10.   Some members are undertaking hunger strikes to protest the detention of party members in distant cities.