"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 group are being held across five prisons over their alleged involvement in break-ins at the UK subsidiary of the Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems in Bristol and a Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Oxfordshire. They deny the charges against them, such as burglary and violent disorder. Palestine Action, which was banned in July as a terror group, a label that applies to groups such as ISIL (ISIS), believes the UK government is complicit in Israeli war crimes."
Six remand prisoners affiliated with Palestine Action are on hunger strike and receiving inadequate healthcare, placing them at immediate risk of death. More than 800 healthcare professionals wrote to Justice Secretary David Lammy warning that young British citizens could die in prison before conviction if the situation is not resolved. The prisoners, aged 20–31, deny charges related to break-ins at Elbit Systems' UK site and an RAF base and are held across five prisons. Their demands include immediate bail, a fair trial, de-proscription of Palestine Action, and closure of Elbit sites. Two strikers have refused food for almost seven weeks and one is on a partial strike due to diabetes.
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