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Palestine Action hunger striker ‘struggling to breathe’ as strike reaches 66 days
Protesters demand urgent trials, medical care, and dropping of terror charges for hunger-striking Palestine Action members jailed under UK security laws.
- On Tuesday, dozens gathered outside the British Consulate in Cape Town, demanding the immediate release of jailed Palestine Action members and urging bail, a fair trial and dropping terror-related charges.
- For more than 60 days, some Palestine Action members have been on hunger strikes after alleged break-ins at an Elbit Systems site near Bristol and a Royal Air Force base; eight prisoners began the strike and remain on remand without bail.
- Prison campaigners warned a hunger striker is struggling to breathe and may have neurological damage, Kamran Ahmed is on day 58 and has been hospitalised repeatedly, and Teuta Hoxha ended her strike on Saturday after 60 days.
- Protesters urged the South African government to intervene as the United Nations last month `expressed grave concern for the lives and fundamental rights` of activists, while campaigners warned Heba Muraisi is at imminent risk.
- The detainees are held without bail under UK security legislation; six activists on trial face aggravated burglary and criminal damage charges over the Elbit Systems Bristol site break-in, amid Palestine Action's proscription as a `terrorist organisation`.
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Activists from the Gaza support group, who have been imprisoned for more than two months, have stopped feeding, calling for a trial, the closure of the British subsidiaries of an Israeli arms company, and the removal of Palestine Action from the list of terrorist organizations.
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