UK pro-Palestine prisoners threaten hunger strike

A campaign group, 'Prisoners for Palestine', has staged a demonstration, or, as they would like to call it, an escalation outside the UK interior ministry, also known as the home office, ahead of a planned hunger strike by several pro-Palestine activists who are in jail at the moment.

They will embark on that hunger strike next month, November 2, indefinitely, unless their demands are met.

Number one is, we ask to end all censorship in prisons.

Two is immediate bail.

Three, release the documents; they have a right to a fair trial. They need the documents on these undisclosed secret meetings.

Four, deproscribe Palestine Action and drop the terror links on all of their cases.

And lastly, shut Elbit down.

Audrey Corno, Activist, ‘Prisoners for Palestine’

• UK-jailed Palestine solidarity activists warn of hunger strike
  

  UK-jailed Palestine solidarity activists warn of hunger strike

  Protesters in the British capital call on the government to drop the charges against tens of pro-Palestine activists jailed for targeting Israeli arms factories on UK soil.

Those demands were delivered to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on October 20, on behalf of what Prisoners for Palestine described as "the 33 political prisoners unjustly locked up for trying to stop genocide in Palestine."

They include the Filton 24, members of Palestine Action, which has carried out direct actions against UK arms industry sites linked to Elbit Systems, Israel's largest arms maker with sites across the UK, notably a 2024 raid at its Filton facility near Bristol.

• London court denies bail to Filton 24 activists
  

  London court denies bail to Filton 24 activists

  London court has held a bail hearing for a group of pro-Palestinian activists known as the Filton-24 on remand under UK terrorism laws.

With the UK government's proscription of Palestine action as a terrorist entity in July this year, the group's detained members have complained of worsening treatment in captivity.

Supporters argue the only option left seems to be going on a hunger strike to force government action.

I think the hunger strike is just the right thing.

We need it now, and we're here in support of all the people in prison.

Many are young people, many are women, some are people of color, and at this moment, the government is trying to criminalize protests.

So it's even more important that we keep a spotlight on the prisoners, because they're the movement inside, and we can't forget them.

Sara Walker, ‘Women of Colour’

• Jailed UK 'Filton 24' activist's hunger strike prompts US prisoners to join in solidarity
  

  Jailed UK 'Filton 24' activist's hunger strike prompts US prisoners to join in solidarity

  Teuta Hoxha, a jailed British Palestine Action activist, has entered day 22 of her hunger strike amid severe health deterioration and reports of torture, prompting fellow imprisoned activists in the US to join the strike in solidarity.

In addition to issuing a warning about an upcoming hunger strike, Prisoners for Palestine says this demonstration aims to highlight both political repression of pro-Palestine activism and the UK's complicity in Israel's genocidal war on Palestinians.

To have a government that is actively colluding with a government that has committed genocide by every international standard is deeply embarrassing for the Labour Party.

I voted for  Keir Starmer, and I bitterly, bitterly regret it, but having worked all my life in human rights, I thought I was voting for an ally who would uphold human rights, and he's doing exactly the opposite.

Katherine Bain, Human Rights Activist

Unless their voices are heard by the authorities, the jailed activists have threatened to start their open ended hunger strike on November 2, marking the largest prisoners’ hunger strike in the UK in decades.

• London police arrest nearly 500 at pro-Palestine Action protest
  

  UK police arrest nearly 500 at pro-Palestine Action protest in London

  British police have arrested nearly 500 people in central London during a mass demonstration in support of Palestine Action, a direct action movement committed to ending global support for the genocidal Israeli regime.

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