While millions of us get ready to ding dong merrily on high, six young political activists have so far been on hunger strike for between a month and six weeks in five different prisons where they are held on remand. Two more started eating recently.

These are the names of those still striking: Heba Muraisi, Teuta Hoxha, Lewie Chiaramello, Amu Gib and Kamran Ahmed. Student Qesser Zuhrah, 20, was taken to hospital and ended her protest yesterday after 48 days of starvation. Gib and Ahmed are also in hospital; Chiaramello is a diabetic. 

The group are being held over their alleged involvement in break-ins at the Bristol offices of a UK subsidiary of the Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems in August 2024, and a Royal Air Force base in Oxfordshire in June this year. They deny the charges against........

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