Pro-Palestine demonstrators have daubed the Ministry of Justice building in central London with red paint, demanding that the justice secretary meet eight Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers.

Two protesters were arrested after Friday’s action, the activists said. They are demonstrating over the treatment of hunger strikers who are due to be held for more than a year before standing trial.

They said they sprayed the building with red paint intended to symbolise blood.

“We have brought the matter to [the justice secretary] David Lammy because he continues to ignore the friends and family, the lawyers of the hunger strikers. He ignores the fact that their lives are at imminent danger,” one of the demonstrators said in a video posted online.

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