{"id":389103,"date":"2026-01-25T04:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389103\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:07:07","slug":"protesters-supporting-palestine-action-hunger-striker-arrested-outside-prison-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389103\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters supporting Palestine Action hunger striker arrested outside prison | London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A group of protesters supporting a Palestine Action prisoner on hunger strike have been arrested after they breached prison grounds, the Metropolitan police has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The force said on Saturday evening that it had detained a group of protesters outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs, in west <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/london\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>, and was in the process of making a number of arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">According to the force, the group refused to leave the grounds when ordered to do so, allegedly blocked prison staff from entering and leaving, and threatened police officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Met said a number of them also managed to get inside a staff entrance area of a prison building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The group were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass, the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Footage shared on social media showed a group chanting outside the prison, with some holding signs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">At one point, the group can be seen moving towards a building \u2013 and one clip appears to show some demonstrators inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It is understood they were holding the demonstration in support of Umer Khalid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He is the last remaining participant in the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike campaign, according to the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of protesters supporting a Palestine Action prisoner on hunger strike have been arrested after they breached&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-389103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389103","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=389103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}