US EditionUK Hunger Strikers Face Organ Damage After 47 Days
Eight hunger-striking prisoners linked to Palestine Action face severe health risks after nearly 47 days without food, protesting extended pre-trial detention and communication censorship, MPs say.
- Earlier this month, eight Palestine Action-linked prisoners entered their seventh week of an indefinite collective hunger strike, with lawyers and loved ones warning the activists could die in custody.
- Protesting lengthy remand and terrorism charges, the prisoners demand immediate bail, a fair trial, de-proscription of Palestine Action and full disclosure after the strike began in early November.
- Doctors and families report Qesser Zuhrah was moved to hospital after 47 days, Kamran Ahmed has been hospitalised twice and five hunger strikers have needed care.
- More than 50 MPs and peers have demanded Justice Secretary David Lammy urgently meet hunger strikers' legal teams, while Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald urged Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to intervene.
- With trial timetables set far ahead, some detainees linked to the Filton 24 have been held over a year without trial, including one detainee on remand 13 months with trial at least six months away.
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UK Medical Professionals Warn Palestine Action Hunger Strikers 'Will Die in Prison'
“I hope it doesn’t have to come to that because these demands are very, very simple,” said a friend to one of the activists. “They are asking the British government to uphold international and national law.”
Almost one in ten MPs have called for David Lammy to intervene to ensure hunger strikers’ human rights are upheld
62 MPs have now signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) in parliament calling for the justice secretary David Lammy to intervene to ensure that six remand prisoners currently on hunger strike have their human rights upheld. This is equivalent to almost one in ten MPs in the UK. The hunger strikers are all on remand having been accused of a series of offences related to activities taken by Palestine Action. They have denied the charges against them, all…
Families of Palestine Hunger Strikers Beg for Meeting With David Lammy as Their Conditions Deteriorate
Family members of the Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers have called on Justice Secretary David Lammy to meet with the strikers before any of them die. Speaking at a press conference in Vauxhall on Thursday, the sisters of hunger strikers Kamran Ahmed and Teuta Hoxha and the next of kin of Qesser Zuhrah alleged ill treatment of their relatives by prison staff, and pleaded with the Government to agree to a meeting to negotiate over the …
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