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Palestine Action hunger strikers ‘set to die unless minister acts’
Five remand prisoners linked to Palestine Action continue hunger strike over 45 days demanding bail and fair trials amid rising health concerns and calls from 51 MPs for government intervention.
- Prisoners on hunger strike await trial for alleged break-ins or criminal damage on behalf of Palestine Action, charges that are denied.
- Fifty-One MPs and peers have written to Justice Secretary David Lammy asking him to meet the lawyers, citing risk of prisoners dying from the hunger strike.
- While ministers say proper procedures are being followed, MPs call for allowing medical treatment to hunger strikers protesting 'against genocide.
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UK Hunger Strike: Palestine Activists Near Death as State Stalls
A serious crisis is rapidly unfolding inside UK prisons as eight Palestine Action-Affiliated activists held on remand continue a prolonged hunger strike (the biggest in the UK since 1981), that has already forced five of them into hospital. Lawyers warn that the group, detained under “terrorism charges,” are being left to face death while government officials remain silent. Legal representatives from Imran Khan & Partners Solicitors have appeale…
'We must not replicate Thatcher's cruelty by letting Palestine hunger strikers die' - The Mirror
As six unconvicted Palestine Action prisoners enter the deadly phase of the UK's longest hunger strike in decades, columnist Aimee Walsh argues Labour must break its silence to save lives
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Leaning Left7Leaning Right0Center3Last UpdatedBias Distribution70% Left
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- 70% of the sources lean Left
70% Left
L 70%
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