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Campaigners have condemned the “deliberate negligence” of a prisoner. Palestine action activist who has refused to eat for 50 daysAs soon as he is taken to the hospital.
Amu Gib is part of a group Palestine action workers who have joined hunger strike for a few months Awaiting trial for alleged vandalism or criminal damage.
Gibb is imprisoned at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, accused of breaking and entering Norton Broken RAF and spray painting two RAF Voyager aircraft In support of Palestine action.
But campaigners have criticized the prison and the government’s handling of conditions and stressed that ignoring this hunger strike is “completely unacceptable” and warned that the hunger strikers would die without intervention.
prisoners Palestine said that Gibb’s health has “deteriorated rapidly” since joining the hunger strike on 2 November and said the activist has been taken to hospital and is now required to use a wheelchair.
The campaign group said the prison had initially refused Gibb access to a wheelchair, resulting in him not being able to get a GP appointment and withholding the vitamin thiamine from Gibb for several days.
Gibb was provided with a wheelchair on Friday and taken to hospital on Saturday.
It comes as emergency physician Dr James Smith, a lecturer at University College London, said the group needed specialist medical help because they were “dying”.
Palestine prisoners said, “On this trajectory, unless there is immediate intervention by the government, the hunger strikers will die. Pretending there is no hunger strike or dismissing the prisoners’ demands is completely unacceptable and willfully negligent.”
“They are in state custody, and any harm caused to them is the result of the government’s negligence and deliberate politicization of their detention,” it said.
A loved one of Gibb said they had not heard from him since 10 a.m. Friday and were “left in the dark.”
He said: “We don’t know whether Amu is in a coma or has suffered a heart attack. I am her next of kin and it is on Amu’s medical records that I am contacted in the event of her hospitalisation.”
“But it has been 57 hours of completely agonizing silence. I am angry and outraged that the prison was withholding thiamine from hunger strikers, without which they are at high risk of brain damage.”
Last week, Mr Corbyn wrote on Instagram that he had visited Gibb in prison and urged him to grant bail.
A total of seven prisoners have been taken to hospital since the hunger strike began on November 2.
Earlier in December, activists John Sink and Omar Khalid ended their 38-day and 12-day hunger strikes for health reasons, Prisoners for Palestine said; Both were admitted to the hospital and later sent back to jail.
HMP Pentonville prisoner Kamran Ahmed, who has refused to eat for 42 days, said in a telephone interview from his cell on Friday that it would be “worthwhile” for him to die. The Sunday Times.
Ahmed, 28, of London, is accused of breaking into an Israel-based defense firm’s UK site near Patchway, Bristol in August 2024 with a sledgehammer, causing £1million worth of damage.
He told The Sunday Times: “Every day I fear that potentially I could die.
“I’m having chest pains regularly… At times I felt like I was being harassed – my body was shaking or shaking. I would basically lose control of my emotions.
“I’ve been scared since the seventh day when my blood sugar dropped. The nurse said: ‘I’m afraid you won’t wake up (when you go to sleep). Please eat something.’
“But I see the bigger picture that maybe we can get rid of persecution overseas and relieve conditions for my co-defendants… Yes, I’m scared of dying. Yes, it could have lifelong effects. But I look at the risk versus the reward. I consider it worthwhile.
Nearly 900 health professionals have written to Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy, Health Secretary Wes Streeting, senior NHS officials and senior prison officials calling for actions to get medical help out.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer had earlier said “rules and procedures” were being followed, after facing questions in the Commons over why his ministers had refused to meet representatives of the strikers.
Prisons Minister Lord Timpson had previously said that the service was “very experienced” in dealing with hunger strikes and had “robust and working” systems in place and that the prison service “will not meet” any prisoners or their representatives.