Pro-Palestinian activists are carrying out one of the UK’s longest ever hunger strikes

London, UK —

Heba Muraisi knows exactly what is happening to her body.“My organs are slowly but surely shutting down,” she said late Monday via phone call from HMP New Hall, a prison in northern England.

The 31-year-old Londoner and pro-Palestinian activist is refusing food as part of a coordinated hunger strike – the longest the United Kingdom has seen in decades.

“I’m pushing through each day, consciously aware of each minute that goes by,” said Muraisi, now on day 73 of her hunger strike. CNN was not able to speak with her directly by phone in prison. Instead, a member of the campaign group Prisoners for Palestine relayed CNN’s questions to her and then shared her answers.

Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed, 28, who is on day 66, began their hunger strike late last year, as part of a group of eight imprisoned pro-Palestinian activists protesting their lengthy pre-trial detention and what they see as a crackdown on political dissent related to the war in Gaza….

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/14/uk/palestine-action-uk-hunger-strikers-intl

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