Since the hunger strike began on 2 November, protesters have been taken to hunger on a number of occasions. <\/p>\n
Four people have ended their strike, while three others are said to be continuing.<\/p>\n
Supporters say an eighth member of the group is intermittently refusing to eat because of an underlying health condition.<\/p>\n
Gardiner-Gibson, who is reportedly being held at HMP Bronzefield, jointly started the protest with Qesser Zuhrah on 2 November. It was confirmed on Monday she had ended her strike after 48 days.<\/p>\n
The other remaining hunger strikers are Heba Muraisi, Teuta Hoxha and Kamran Ahmad. They are said to have been refusing food for 50 days, 44 days and 43 days respectively – accounts that have not been disputed by officials. <\/p>\n
Prison and NHS guidelines make clear that clinicians must oversee treatment decisions for hunger strikers. They can only be given food-related treatments if they consent or it is clear they lack the mental capacity to choose.<\/p>\n
Prisoners for Palestine have called for improved treatment of detainees while they are held on remand and for Palestine Action’s ban to be lifted.<\/p>\n
The High Court has been reviewing the home secretary’s decision to proscribe the group and a judgment is expected in the New Year.<\/p>\n
Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending Lord Timpson said: “While very concerning, hunger strikes are not a new issue for our prisons.<\/p>\n
“Over the last five years, we’ve averaged over 200 a year and we have longstanding procedures in place to ensure prisoner safety.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the hunger strike began on 2 November, protesters have been taken to hunger on a number of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-201319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}