US EditionMy Friend Amu Gib Has Been on Hunger Strike for over 50 Days in a British Prison – The Mail & Guardian
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My friend Amu Gib has been on hunger strike for over 50 days in a British prison – The Mail & Guardian
I met Amu Gib in 2015 at SOAS, a public university affiliated with the University of London. They (Amu’s pronoun) were one of the leaders of a campaign to end the mistreatment of outsourced cleaning staff at the university. Other university workers who were employed directly by SOAS were treated much better: They received higher wages, had access to certain benefits and job security, and had formal recourse when mistreated. Yet, because the cle…
They reject London’s complicity with Tel Aviv’s extermination campaign. One striker lost his ability to speak, while another can no longer stand without fainting.
During the second half of this year, the British government began an excessive hunt against the Palestine Action group, which has been carrying out actions against the Elbit Systems arms industry: an Israeli defense company that manufactures drone weapons and other elements of military technology. In a dystopian fact, a pacifist and anti-armamentist group is classified as a terrorist and its members imprisoned. There have already been at least 1…
This is the biggest hunger strike of political prisoners since that of the Irish independents under Margaret Thatcher in 1981. The article United Kingdom: 8 activists of Palestine Action on hunger strike, certain in a critical state appeared first on against Attack.
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