Pro-Palestine activists awaiting trial have been holding a hunger strike in prison – with two now on day 39 without food.
Qesser Zurah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, Teuta Hoxha and Kamran Ahmed have all been on hunger strike for more than a month.
All are denied bail after their alleged involvement in Palestine Action raids on an arms factory owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest manufacturer for weapons, and RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
Lewie Chiaramello has also been refusing to eat, now for over 17 days, and Muhammed Umer Khalid for more than a week.
So far Kamran was hospitalised on November 25 after going into his fourth week of a hunger strike, and his sister, Shahmina Alam, is fearing the very worst.
And Teuta was hospitalised two days later, on November 27, as her h

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