Green Party's Mothin Ali calls on Lammy to help Palestine Action hunger strikers

The Green Party leadership has called on the government to "act before it's too late" after the party’s deputy leader became the first political figure to visit activists affiliated with Palestine Action who are on hunger strike.

Mothin Ali told Middle East Eye he was "horrified" by the conditions endured by two activists, Amu Gib and Jon Cink, whom he visited in HMP Bronsfield in West London.

They are among 24 Palestine Action activists in jail awaiting trial for actions against weapons factories and offices linked to Israel in protest over the genocide in Gaza.

Both prisoners, he said, are on their "last legs" and subjected to what he described as "inhumane" treatment that is "an affront to human decency".

"These young activists are only holding on because of their youth. Both look extremely weak and are struggling with multiple health issues as they continue their hunger strike to oppose the government's treatment of them and the UK's ongoing complicity in genocide," Ali said.

"This is the biggest hunger strike since Bobby Sands and Irish prisoners went on hunger strike in the 1980s."

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