A Dying Prisoner Forced Their Hand — And They’ve Absolutely Lost It

Kernow Damo by Damien Willey

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Hunger striker Qesser Zurah has deteriorated significantly overnight, but would the prison call and ambulance? Not until an MP turned up... Right, so it tells you everything about Britain right now that a woman can be on Day 46 of a hunger strike, collapsing on the floor of her cell, drifting in and out of consciousness, and the people in charge still think the real emergency is an MP and two NHS doctors turning up to ask why no ambulance has been called. That’s where we were as of the early hours of this morning. A Filton hunger striker, Qesser Zuhrah is dying, the decline has been predictable for weeks, the warnings have been shoved under ministerial carpets, and the prison’s first instinct was to shut the doors and hope the problem stayed out of sight. And when that didn’t work, they called the police on the people trying to save her life, whi ... 

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