Update on Irom Sharmila

Yesterday Irom Sharmila appeared in court in Delhi to answer a charge of attempted suicide in Delhi in 2006--actually just a continuation of her hunger strike in protest of the Armed Forces Special Protection Act, which gives the military impunity in Sharmila's home province of Manipur.

Standing before the court with a pipe in her nose - through which she has been force-fed since November, 2000 - Sharmila told the court she would eat her first bite in over a decade right there and then if the...