https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mps-call-inquiry-palestine-action-hunger-strikers
Protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice on The Strand, central London, ahead of a hearing over whether proscribing of Palestine Action should be temporarily blocked, July 4, 2025MPS CALLED for an inquiry into the Palestine Action hunger strikers today as the last one ended his strike after being given hours to live.
Umer Khalid, 22, told of ending his food and water fast after being rushed to hospital and given a “choice between treatment and likely death within the next 24 hours.”
He said that he believed “there is so much we can do to effect change … this clearly was not my time.”
If PM Sir Keir Starmer and Justice Secretary David Lammy want “to see me dead … they can come and do it themselves.
“Until then we keep fighting, we keep resisting,” he added in a statement released by Prisoners for Palestine yesterday.
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Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell is among the MPs who have spoken up in Parliament for the prisoners.
Today he told a Prisoners for Palestine press conference: “I would like the Secretary of State for Justice David Lammy now to have a full inquiry into how these prisoners have been treated.
“Because I do believe most people will find it’s unacceptable that they are on remand for so long and the way they have been treated in prison itself.
“That includes, I have to say, access to health facilities when some of them have been I believe in a dangerous plight.
“What we want to see is a review by the Secretary of State for Justice on the whole issue of their detention and their treatment so that we avoid this happening in the future.
“People shouldn’t have to put their lives at risk in this way just to secure an element of fair treatment and justice under our system.”
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