Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns
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Hundreds of doctors, dozens of MPs and thousands of everyday Britons call on the justice secretary to intervene.
London, United Kingdom – Six remand prisoners affiliated with the proscribed protest group Palestine Action who are on hunger strike are not receiving adequate healthcare and face an immediate risk of death, hundreds of British healthcare professionals have warned.
On Thursday, more than 800 doctors, nurses, therapists and carers wrote to Justice Secretary David Lammy to warn that “without resolution, there is the real and increasingly likely potential that young British citizens will die in prison, having never even been convicted of an offence”.
The prisoners, aged between 20 and 31, are: Qesser Zuhrah; Amu Gib; Heba Muraisi; Teuta Hoxha and Kamran Ahmed. Lewie Chiaramello is on a partial strike, refusing food every other day as he is diabetic.
“Put simply, the hunger strikers are dying,” James Smith, an emergency physician and university lecturer, told a news conference in London on Thursday, speaking alongside family members of some of the hunger strikers, politicians supporting them, their lawyer and activists.
“They are all now at a critical stage.”
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