Palestine Action hunger strikers expose sham of British justice |
It was as recently as 1998 that judicial murder was abolished in the United Kingdom.
Although the death penalty was suspended in 1965 and abolished in 1969, it remained on the statute book for treason until 1998.
But did state-sponsored murder end then?
The reality is that it has been a feature of the British approach to conflict not just in Ireland but in theatres of war such as Iraq and Afghanistan; and the British state is not afraid to brazenly cover up its excesses through lies, deceit and manipulation of the legal system.
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It is not just on the field of battle that Britain pursues its ends through the denial of justice.
You would not know it from the British media, but the Starmer government is complicit in yet another crime against humanity through its refusal to intervene in the case of hunger strikers in prison on remand for charges relating to Palestine Action.........