Prison: HMP Peterborough
Prisoner number: A9261FE
On remand since: November 19th 2024
Trial date: April 2026
T was arrested in the dawn raids against Palestine activists on 19th November 2024 by counter-terrorism police in the third wave of Filton arrests 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 her one of the Filton 24. Although the terror charges were dropped, she has been held in remand ever since and has spent her 29th birthday behind bars.
T previously blockaded the entrance of Elbit’s Bristol HQ, forcing the Israeli weapons maker to close, and soon after, she also disrupted Elbit-investor BNY Mellon’s office in Manchester. She was moved from HMP Bronzefield on the day MPs voted to proscribe Palestine Action.
On 11 August 2025, T went on hunger strike in protest of the prison’s violations of her fundamental rights such as the cancellation of her recreational and educational activities, the withholding of her mail, and her removal from a job in the prison library. She also reported mistreatment by guards, who constantly referred to her as a terrorist. She has both been called a terrorist by prison staff and told she belongs to a terrorist group, continuously being subject to retrospective punishment after the proscription of Palestine Action before, during and after her hunger strike which she ended in victory after 28 days of resistance. During T’s hunger strike, she was joined by two political prisoners in the US, Casey Goonan and Mohammed Malik in a stunning action of fearless and humbling solidarity transcending man-made imaginary borders.
In her reflections on her hunger strike, she cites the Islamic proverb, “Our mercy and compassion for each other is like that of a body. When any limb aches, the whole body reels with sleeplessness and fever,” contemplating that, “…it is with this view we accept that global solidarity movements constitute one body. What affects one affects us all. Therefore in the same vein we say there is no freedom until Palestine is free.”