Take action: write to the Ministry of Justice

Posted: 21st December 2025

I know you’ve received emails from us last week on this topic, but the situation is even more urgent now. A group of imprisoned activists associated with Palestine Action are on hunger strike over the unjust conditions of their detention. Their health is deteriorating rapidly and several are at grave risk of death.

These prisoners are facing trial for allegedly taking action to prevent arms manufacturers from shipping weapons to Israel, which has been conducting a genocide against the Palestinian people, on top of its ongoing illegal occupation and apartheid.

In what can only be understood as political retaliation, the imprisoned activists have been held on remand, some of them for up to two years, without having been convicted of any crime; their communications with family and friends have been censored; and their right to a fair trial is being restricted, with some of the documents relevant to their defence withheld from their or their lawyers’ view. These conditions are completely unacceptable, and a violation of the prisoners’ basic human rights, which should be guaranteed in a democracy.

Over 15,000 PSC members and supporters like you have emailed their MPs about this crisis. Over 1,000 joined us a few nights ago to protest on behalf of the hunger strikers at the Ministry of Justice. MPs and Peers, notable human rights advocates and many others have spoken up in collective outrage to call urgent attention to these young people who are at a grave risk. And yet David Lammy MP, the government minister responsible for prisons and the justice system, has refused to meet the families or legal representatives of the prisoners.

David Lammy’s failure to uphold these prisoners’ basic rights has pushed them to the brink of death. We need to flood his inbox to show that we will not stand by this injustice.

It is the perpetrators of Israel’s genocide, and the British politicians and companies arming them, who should be facing trial. Instead, the government has cracked down on those protesting against genocide and is now denying the rights of those who are imprisoned.

If you’ve already written to your MP on this topic, thank you. Over 60 MPs across the political spectrum have spoken out in support of the rights of these prisoners. But we now need to force David Lammy and the rest of the government to urgently take action before it’s too late.

Please write to David Lammy at the Ministry of Justice and please share this action with everyone you know to demand justice for the hunger striking prisoners.

In solidarity,

Ryvka

Deputy Director