They Thought No One Would Notice Starving Prisoners. They Were Wrong
Five weeks on hunger strike is now a health catastrophe for the unconvicted Filton hunger strikers and the government denies all knowledge. Right, so you look at what’s happening to the Filton hunger strikers and you start to wonder how many people this government expects to collapse before it admits it knows what’s going on. Seven activists on remand starving in its prisons, two already in hospital, families begging for updates, parliamentarians raising the alarm, doctors warning about organ failure, and the Justice Secretary David Lammy has claimed he’s never heard of any of it. And it’d…
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