Irom Chanu Sharmila, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Manipur' leaves after an appearance at the Patiala House Court in New Delhi on May 28, 2014. Irom Sharmila, 42, who has been fasting since November 2000 against a law that enables security forces to shoot on sight and arrest anybody without a warrant to tackle insurgencies in some northeastern states and in Kashmir in the north, appeared for a court hearing in New Delhi for a case in connection with her 2006 hunger strike in which she had been accused of attempted suicide. AFP PHOTO/ Chandan KHANNA (Photo credit should read Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images)
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