{"id":321199,"date":"2025-12-17T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321199\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:18:08","slug":"mp-zarah-sultana-protests-in-support-of-hunger-striker-qesser-zuhrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/321199\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Zarah Sultana protests in support of hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah"},"content":{"rendered":"

A spokesperson for HMP Bronzefield said it could not provide information about specific individuals but said all prisoners had full access to healthcare, including attendance to “external medical facilities if needed”.<\/p>\n

They said: “Any prisoner refusing food receives regular medical assessment and support from clinicians, as well as being offered mental health support.”<\/p>\n

The prison said all prisoners were managed in line with policies to assess “individual risks and security status”. <\/p>\n

Posting at 13:00 GMT on Wednesday, Sultana said she would not leave the prison until an ambulance arrived to transfer Ms Zuhrah to hospital. <\/p>\n

Protests are currently taking place in five different prisons involving eight people, <\/a>including Ms Zuhrah, who have all been charged with and denied offences relating to alleged break-ins or criminal damage on behalf of Palestine Action, before the group was banned under terrorism legislation.<\/p>\n

A letter by lawyers representing the group,<\/a> seen by the BBC, told Lammy there was a “real and increasingly likely potential” their clients would die in prison as part of their protest.<\/p>\n

The BBC has contacted Sultana and the Ministry of Justice for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for HMP Bronzefield said it could not provide information about specific individuals but said all prisoners…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-321199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}