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UK Prison Hunger Strikes Reach Critical Stage, Pressure Mounts on Lammy

Doctors, MPs, families urge Justice Secretary David Lammy to intervene.

Overview

  • Qesser Zuhrah was transferred from HMP Bronzefield to hospital after roughly 46–47 days without food as protests outside the prison intensified.
  • More than 800 healthcare professionals warned that the remand prisoners face imminent risks of organ failure, irreversible damage, or death without specialist care.
  • Over 50 MPs and peers pressed David Lammy to meet the prisoners’ lawyers, while the prisons minister said established procedures are being followed and ruled out meetings.
  • Several activists are now past 46 days of fasting, with some previously hospitalised and two having paused or ended their strikes, according to supporters and media reports.
  • The detainees await trial on charges linked to alleged break-ins at Elbit Systems and RAF Brize Norton; Palestine Action was banned in July and prosecutors linked the Bristol raid to terrorism, a stance campaigners dispute alongside allegations of delayed care that officials contest.