3 Dec 2025
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/british-hunger-strikers-learn-prison-lessons-palestine

Six political prisoners in British jails associated with the banned group
Palestine Action have now been on hunger strike for up to a month.

They are demanding to be released on bail, the right to a fair trial and an
immediate end to what they say is their persecution by the British government.

Most have already been held on remand far longer than the normal six-month
maximum which the law allows before trial.

On the latest episode of The Electronic Intifada podcast, (Alam) the sister of
Kamran Ahmed, one of the hunger strikers, told us that her brother's condition
is deteriorating rapidly.

We also spoke to Francesca Nadin, a spokesperson from the new group Prisoners
for Palestine, which supports the hunger strike.

...

Nadin and Alam told us that they see similar signs of a stitch-up by the British
establishment in the treatment of the political prisoners by both the justice
system and the media.

Nadin said there had been "almost a complete blackout in the mainstream media
about this story," despite its importance.

Nadin said her group had had conversations with mainstream journalists wanting
to do stories on the hunger strikers that later got blocked by their bosses: "it
seems very suspicious to me ... I can see a pattern emerging here where it gets
blocked by editors or lawyers."

...

Alam, too, told of a stitch-up attempt by the British courts system.

Her brother was arrested on 19 November 2024 and so has now been held for nearly
13 months - long past the legal maximum on remand.

In fact, judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb did order Kamran Ahmed be bailed in February
this year at a Crown Court. But the bail was immediately appealed by government
prosecutors and Ahmed was not released.

Not only was his bail overturned at the High Court, but Cheema-Grubb was
immediately removed from judging similar cases, according to Alam.