Prison: HMP Pentonville
Prisoner number: A9280FE
On remand since: Nov 19th 2024
Trial date: June 2026
Kamran was arrested in a violent dawn raid by counter-terrorism police on 19th November 2024 during which his elderly parents were also denied food and medication for hours. He was then remanded to prison after being charged with a non-terrorism related offence on allegations of being connected to the Filton action, which saw over £1 million in damage caused to Elbit’s research centre for Israeli weapons- making him one of the Filton 24. During his time in prison, Kamran’s fundamental rights have been consistently abused by the prison, including restrictons on visits and mail, being arbitrarily subjected to isolation and limited access to the prison library.
In his reflections after his court hearing in March 2025, Kamran shares how he would have responded to the judge: “As with your decision about how to proceed with our case, you spit in the face of many before me who fought against oppression. You spit in the face of the suffragettes, who like us, sat in jail, some 15 minutes down from here, at the now closed Holloway Road Prison. You spit on the face of Anne Frank, who wished someone would put a halt to that genocide (Holocaust). You spit on the face of every American who refused to pillage Vietnam. What the 3 events have in common is that people like you had the power to stop or end it. But it took those with a bit of humanity instead to step in and outnumber those who care more for their job or the vehicle they drive. Before I was remanded I remember reading something along the lines of, ‘You ask what you would’ve done then? You’re doing it now.’”