On November 6, 2012 Irom Sharmilla Chanu reached her 12th year of her hunger fast against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, that gives Indian security officials authority to kill, destroy, and confiscate with impunity. She has been been kept alive by force feeding her through a feeding tube in her nose. Every 2 weeks she is produced in court to reaffirm that she plans to continue the fast and is released once a year and then re arrested the next day.