Pro-Palestinian prisoners are facing false accusations and mistreatment.
According to IRNA on Wednesday, citing the Electronic Intifada website, Teuta T. Hoja is a British political prisoner and activist in solidarity with the Palestinian people who has gone on hunger strike to protest his arrest and prison conditions. This is Hoja’s second strike.
He is one of 24 prisoners known as Filton, currently held in British prisons, facing charges related to direct action against the Israeli arms company Al-Bait near Bristol in August 2024. He is currently on his second hunger strike and wrote this text between the first and second periods of his hunger strike.
Before his arrest, Hoja was an activist with the Palestinian Action Group, which is currently banned under the UK’s “counter-terrorism” law. After the ban on the Palestinian Action Group, Hoja’s mistreatment has increased. If there has been no contact between this political prisoner and this group since the ban was announced.
As a prisoner, you learn three things. First, no one tells you anything; second, you are usually the last person to know anything about yourself; and third, requests and complaints are closed with two words: “Security considerations.”
Take, for example, my job at the library, which was terminated on August 1, 2025, without any reason. I was checking my schedule when I noticed the “unemployed” sign for my status. At my previous prison, HMP Bronzefield, I had security clearance to work as a Shannon Trust tutor, a face-to-face job helping other prisoners improve their reading skills. I worked as a peer to prisoners until my sudden and urgent transfer to HMP Peterborough. It was on the eighth day of my hunger strike that the reason behind this decision became clear to me.