Five Palestine Action prisoners awaiting trial have been taken to hospital as a result of hunger strikes, lawyers representing them told the justice secretary in a letter shared with Sky News.

A total of eight prisoners are currently taking part in the action, thought to be the UK's biggest hunger strike since 1981, with two now on day 38 without food, according to the letter.

It says prisoner Kamran Ahmed has been on hunger strike for 31 days, having spent a year on remand awaiting trial, and that he has been taken to hospital twice since collapsing in his cell on November 21. Sky News understands his latest admission was on Monday evening.

Image: Kamran Ahmed

His sister Shahmina Alam told Sky News her family fears "the worst call".

"I don't sleep through the night because I'm cons

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