A PALESTINE Action prisoner who refused to eat for more than two months, while demanding the right to a fair trial, has paused her hunger strike.

Teuta Hoxha ended her strike after 60 days without food as activist group Prisoners for Palestine claimed on Monday that prison authorities have denied her proper medical treatment.
 
Hoxha is one of the former Palestine Action members in prison who, for the past 63 days, have been on hunger strike. 

They were jailed for allegedly breaking into the British subsidiary of Israeli arms company Elbit Systems in Filton in 2024.

The campaign group said the 29-year-old “needs urgent medical care in hospital to prevent refeeding syndrome.”

Reefeeding syndrome occurs when a malnourished person resumes feeding too quickly, leading to potentially serious complications. 

The group added: “The prison is refusing [her] medical treatment, which is required to prevent death in extreme cases of starvation.”

They also called on the public to take part in a “phone blocking” campaign, ringing the HMP Peterborough where Hoxha is held in massive numbers, asking for her to receive treatment.

Prisoners still on hunger strike include Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed. Lewie Chiaramello is refusing food every other day due to his diabetes.

Their demands include immediate bail, the right to a fair trial, an end to censorship of their communications, “de-proscribing” Palestine Action and closing UK subsidiaries of Elbit.

It comes as a court heard claims that other Palestine Action activists facing charges in relation to actions on the Filton Elbit factory “had sledgehammers solely for destroying property.”

Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin stand accused of a “meticulously organised” demonstration at the factory in August 2024.

All six faced charges of aggravated burglary, criminal damage and violent disorder at Woolwich Crown Court.

In a summary delivered today, the trial judge reminded jurors that the defendants did not dispute entering Elbit without permission and carrying sledgehammers.

Instead the activists dispute claims that the sledgehammers were “weapons of offence,” as Samuel Corner denied further charges of causing a police sergeant grievous bodily harm.

The judge said there was “no dispute” that Mr Corner struck the sergeant, who previously told the trial she believed her spine was shattered after being hit on her lower back while in the process of arresting another activists.