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Police forced march for hunger strikers to divert: images

Police forced last night’s weekly protest march to the BBC’s London HQ in solidarity with the hunger strikers to divert to avoid supposed hurt to Jewish groups meeting for Hanukkah. Jewish people have been front and centre of every protest. The march was excluded from a large area around the BBC:

To rub salt into the wounds of the many Jewish people who protest against genocide, the marchers were also not allowed in a large area around Trafalgar Square. The Starmer regime continues to prioritise the comfort of Zionists above the rights of British people. Over the lives of Palestinians and the humanitarian political prisoners on hunger strike for them:

Photographer Chiara Contrino attended the march and kindly provided the following shots from the well-attended demo:

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Gerry Tasker provided these compelling shots from the Parliament Square demo:

 

On Thursday, police attacked a peaceful demo outside Bronzefield prison after it had successfully forced the prison to send desperately ill hunger-striker Qesser Zuhrah to hospital by ambulance after it had turned away doctors attempting to assess and treat her. Read more here.

 

Solidarity with the hunger strikers.

 

Featured image via Chiara Contrino

By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.