Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: ‘I’m dying’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/hunger-striker-heba-muraisi-linked-palestine-action
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/hunger-striker-heba-muraisi-linked-palestine-action
29 Comments
RubberDuck@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 213d
deHaga@feddit.uk · -5 pts · 213d
What? What is authoritarian about not getting a meeting with a minister?
Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 213d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
It's in the first sentence.
deHaga@feddit.uk · -5 pts · 213d
You can start any political party you want to, have any opinions you like. Doesn't mean you're entitled to meeting a minister to discuss your opinions.
We need more lions, not martyrs. Do they think them starving themselves to death achieves anything?
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 10 pts · 213d
The dude is in prison. Got a better way for him to garner attention?
deHaga@feddit.uk · -5 pts · 213d
What good is attention?
Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 213d
I'm not certain if you're being purposefully obtuse here or are just genuinely thick, so I'll reference Wikipedia again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralism_(political_philosophy)
It seems foolish to me to get involved in this kind of debate if you don't fully understand the terminology, and given your ignorance it seems futile to discuss martyrdom and it's galvanising effect. Other than to mention that a large portion of the world's population have been celebrating someone for their martyrdom for hundreds of years. Their birthday was about three weeks ago.
deHaga@feddit.uk · -4 pts · 212d
Going on a pointless hunger strike and expecting the govt to bend to your demands sounds pretty extreme.
Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 212d
And changing the law to proscribe groups who's only crime is criminal damage as terrorists, and then holding members of that group without trail for over a year is totally fine, right? Not extreme and definitely not a breach of human rights? Do you think these people would be starving themselves to death if they were not imprisoned unfairly, and without prospect of release or even a fair trail?
The UN doesn't seem to think so: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/12/un-experts-urge-uk-protect-lives-and-rights-pro-palestinian-detainees-hunger
Sounds to me that you like a bit of Authoritarianism, despite not knowing what it is. I guess if you like the taste of boot then that's up to you but I prefer a free and fair society.
hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 212d
It's a rejection of the magna carta, this and a host of other things this government has done or watched their judiciary do with hidden glee. Locking down the internet, connecting every person to an account in a way lower level government, connected groups, hackers, oligarchs, etc can end up accessing, and otherwise putting everything done or said or looked at through half baked ai threat detection run by the antichrist peter thiel and his ilk, making secret social scores to determine you job prospects, loans, police and court treatment, prices you pay, results your search engines show you.
That is where that is heading. Trying to set up this new technology right up the asses of it's citizenry. England is the birthplace of modern liberty, the first in many respects to throw off censorship and the controls on the press and speech, and other rights outlined in the magna carta. Now it's the first to cancel them. Including cancelling jury trials for up to 3 years in prison, from 1 changed in 2020. Before any crime was decided by a jury, a basic right demanded in that magna carta. Now decided by a magistrate chosen by their old boy legal network.
deHaga@feddit.uk · -4 pts · 212d
Entering a military base to damage military equipment is a hostile act that has national security issues. They're not smashing up a McDonald's at Liverpool St.
The Suffragists got shit done, the Suffragettes didn't. Maybe learn from history?
craftymansamcf@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 213d
Are you saying the law on remand is an opinion?
deHaga@feddit.uk · -9 pts · 213d
Can't do the time, don't do the crime
HermitBee@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 213d
You seem to be using this argument like it's some kind of zinger, rather than a remarkable demonstration of your lack of understanding of the situation.
deHaga@feddit.uk · -5 pts · 212d
Win stupid prizes
gedhrel@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 212d
They haven't been charged.
craftymansamcf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 212d
What crime have they been >charged< for?
deHaga@feddit.uk · -1 pts · 212d
This is what got them proscribed as a terrorist group
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98nn62djpdo
hector@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 212d
On a guardian podcast they mentioned these hunger strikers literally starving to death were brought up with labor mp's, and they laughed.
This labor government is fascist, they've done more damage in their short time in power than the Tories did their entire time in control. Including cancelling jury trials for up to 3 years in prison changed from 1 which was done in 2020. Illegalizing protests not favored by politicians, bad faith terrorism designations to help actual fascists based on bad faith arguments, accusing people protesting the same thing but not mentioning the proscribed group of supporting terror. Proscribed says israel bad, you said israel bad, you are terrorist reasoning.
They created a masterbaitorbase, to protect the kids they connect every ip and account to id and likeness, in a database silicon valley, and by extension the US government, and other intelligence agencies will also get, to connect everything everyone says, does, looks at, to them and put ai into making half baked assumptions, and social scores to secretly use based on that information in a way people will not be informed of and therefore have no way of challenging.
Age checks and child porn are of course the trojan horses (trojan sheep as the case may be,) and that is perhaps the most pernicious of the changes they have made or let their judiciary make without a fight.
What else I am forgetting something here, this labor government is worse than any UK government ever, cancelling the magna carta in effect. Partial cancellation now, to be expanded later. There is seriously something wrong with our brains at this point, systematic pollution affecting our trust and fear and compliance functions in the brain, in some 1984 type shit, because past generations would never have accepted the magna carta being cancelled, liberty curtailed in the country modern liberty of the enlightenment was born in.
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 212d
You forgot constantly trying to backdoor/undermine encryption including trying to force Apple to backdoor iCloud for the entire world
steeznson@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 212d
These protestors must be at the physiological limit for hunger striking. I'm not sure how it's humanly possible unless there is some technicality like doctors giving them a drip with vitamins, etc. I believe at this point one of them has outlived Bobby Sands' hunger strike duration by 2 or 3 weeks.