Professional-Palestine Motion activists have threatened to go on starvation strike on the anniversary of the Balfour declaration in protest towards being held in jail whereas awaiting trial.
Prisoners for Palestine have stated an undisclosed variety of inmates will start an open-ended starvation strike on 2 November if their calls for should not met.
A letter detailing their calls for, which embrace fast bail, lifting the ban on Palestine Motion and an finish to censorship of their communications, was handed in on the Dwelling Workplace on Monday by two beforehand imprisoned activists, Francesca Nadin and Audrey Corno.
They stated: “The federal government should make the proper choice and provides the prisoners the essential authorized rights that they’ve been denied. The federal government has left the prisoners with no different possibility however to starvation strike for his or her freedom and justice.
“The prisoners are agency within the data that they’ve huge help each right here and internationally, and that the folks will come collectively to take motion of their identify. It is a direct results of not solely the federal government’s appalling actions in direction of the prisoners, but additionally their lively participation within the genocide in Gaza.”
The letter says different prisoners might be part of the starvation strike if the calls for should not met.
The prisoners don’t want to be named however they’re amongst 24 accused in relation to an motion at Elbit Programs in Filton close to Bristol final yr, in addition to the so-called Brize Norton 5.
The Filton 24 are scheduled to be tried on fees of aggravated housebreaking, prison injury and violent dysfunction in April subsequent yr. The Crown Prosecution Service stated there was a “terrorism connection”, however no fees have been introduced underneath the Terrorism Act.
These on remand in relation to the injury of two Voyager plane at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on 20 June throughout a protest are charged with conspiracy to commit prison injury and conspiracy to enter a prohibited place knowingly for a goal prejudicial to the protection or pursuits of the UK. They aren’t scheduled to face trial till January 2027.
Each incidents had been claimed by Palestine Motion. Shortly after the Brize Norton incident, it turned the primary direct motion protest group to be proscribed underneath the Terrorism Act, though it later emerged that intelligence officers had first really useful it’s banned in March.
Prisoners held for alleged offences referring to Palestine Motion actions say they’ve confronted a crackdown for the reason that group was proscribed regardless of the costs they face referring to actions that predate the ban.
The courtroom of attraction dominated on Friday {that a} authorized problem to the proscription of Palestine Motion introduced by its co-founder Huda Ammori might go forward subsequent month, rejecting a Dwelling Workplace try to dam it.
In response to the judgment, the Dwelling Workplace stated: ““Palestine Motion has carried out an escalating marketing campaign. This has concerned sustained prison injury, together with to Britain’s nationwide safety infrastructure, in addition to intimidation, alleged violence and severe accidents.
“Palestine Motion stay a proscribed group and people who help them will face the complete pressure of the legislation. Everybody ought to keep in mind: supporting Palestine and supporting a proscribed terrorist group should not the identical factor.”
