Despite receiving severe medical advice, two other prisoners in the United Kingdom have recently put their protests on hold because they have serious health issues. Four prisoners in the United Kingdom are still on a hunger strike.
The hunger strikers Kamran Ahmed, Heba Muraisi, Teuta Hoxha, and Lewie Chiaramello, who are still unaccounted for, were being treated for the third time on Saturday after starting to refuse food, according to the protest group Prisoners For Palestine.
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The group stated on Tuesday that “the remaining four will continue to refuse food in response to [their] demands.”
The hunger strikers want immediate release, a fair trial, and for the UK to outlaw Palestine Action, which it declared a “terror” group in July. The pro-Palestinian group claims that the UK government is a toxic perpetrator of Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
They demand that all Elbit, Israel’s largest weapons producer, websites be shut down, as well as putting an end to alleged censorship of their communication.
The statement stated that the remaining strikers were adding to their list of demands, including that Muraisi be transferred from a prison in northern England to Bronzefield prison in Surrey, where she has connections in London, and that they should have access to the same courses and activities as sentenced prisoners.
According to Prisoners For Palestine, Chiaramello is experiencing confusion, dizziness, and weakness while engaging in an intermittent hunger strike that he refuses to eat every other day because he is diabetic.
The prisoners are accused of participating in a 2012 break-in that involved the spray-painting of two military aircraft at an Elbit-run UK factory near Bristol and at an Oxfordshire Royal Air Force base. They deny the charges brought against them, including violent disorder and burglary.
“Excruciating pain”
Two of their fellow prisoners announced a pause to their strike on Friday after suffering grave health effects, and the pledge to continue with the strike.
Qesser Zuhrah, a 20-year-old woman who Prisoners For Palestine claimed she had halted her hunger strike after 48 days of abstaining from it, was complaining about “continuous excruciating pain in her abdomen.”
After staff at the prison refused her an ambulance for more than 18 hours last week, leading to protests outside the jail before she was taken to the hospital, she decided to pause the hunger strike.
Zuhrah, whose lawyers claimed she had lost 13 percent of her body weight, made a statement informing the government that she intended to resume the hunger strike. “We will undoubtedly return to battle you with our empty stomachs in the new year,” she warned the government.
After the hunger strike forced them to use a wheelchair due to severe weakness and brain fog, another prisoner, Amu Gib, resumed eating.
MP claims that the government is “cruel.”
Zuhrah and Gib were praised by Sultana, who now runs the Your Party, for “blank the cruelty of a Labour government wanting them to die.”
She stated in a statement that they “refused to give them that… and will resume in the new year,” and that they had demanded immediate bail for the organization.
She stated that the four remaining strikers were “at a critical point,” refusing to eat until their demands are met, UK complicity ends, and Palestine is free.
Source: Aljazeera
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