- Name: Teuta Hoxha
- Group: Palestine Action activist
- Origin: From Croydon
- Action: Ended 58-day hunger strike
- Confirmation: By her supporters
- Status: Strike officially over
On Monday, the hunger strike was put on hold because Hoxha’s health had deteriorated to the point that supporters said she needed hospital care. Hoxha is accused of being refused medical care by HMP Peterborough employees.
Hoxha and the other hunger strikers were in “the lethal zone,” which is a time when a person is seriously at risk of death if they had gone without meals for 45 days or more.
There are still three inmates on hunger strike.
It is anticipated that Hoxha and the other hunger strikers may experience long-term health problems as a result of their struggle, including potential brain impairment.
The 29-year-old Hoxha began refusing meals two months ago after being denied bail and imprisoned for over a year without a trial. Sarah Jones, her MP and a junior cabinet minister for Labour, declined to speak up for her constituents.
On Monday, the organization Prisoners For Palestine posted on Instagram that Hoxha is in critical health and requires hospitalization.
To avoid refeeding syndrome, Hoxha “needs immediate medical attention in a hospital.” Prisoners for Palestine wrote, “The prison is refusing [her] medical treatment, which is necessary to prevent death in extreme cases of starvation.”
Due to their alleged involvement in break-ins at the British armaments business Elbit Systems division near Bristol in 2024, the Palestine Action members were imprisoned.
Elbit’s Filton research facility sustained damage worth over £1 million.
The Israeli Defense Force in Gaza and the West Bank has been receiving weapons and parts from Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense manufacturer.
Additionally, some Palestine Action members are being detained for allegedly breaking into an RAF Brize Norton and spraying two planes with red paint.
The inmates contest the accusations against them, which include violent disturbance and burglary.
Out of the eight Palestine Action hunger strikers, just three are still refusing food while they call for their release. Kamran Ahmed, 28, and Heba Muraisi, 31, are among those who are continuing on hunger strike. Due to his diabetes, 22-year-old Lewie Chiaramello also refuses food every other day.
Croydon West MP Jones simply transferred the blame by directing the issue to her government colleague, Lord James Timpson, the minister of prisons, when Croydon trade unionists appealed for action on Hoxha’s behalf last month. The same generic response and no action have been given to other constituents who have written to Labour MPs.
In order to protect unconvicted offenders from being detained in pre-trial custody for an unreasonable amount of time, English law establishes custody duration restrictions. According to the Crown Prosecution Service, a prisoner may be placed on remand for a maximum of 182 days, or six months. Hoxha was taken into custody in November 2024, and her trial is scheduled to begin in April.
The hunger strikers “are being held under ‘terrorist conditions,'” according to Monbiot. This implies that they are only permitted a limited number of visits and communications. Additionally, they have been subject to “non-association orders,” denied access to literature, newspapers, libraries, and gyms, and prohibited from working in prisons for “security reasons.”
“Yet none of the hunger strikers has been charged with, let alone sentenced for, terrorist offences. They have been charged with ordinary criminal offences, such as burglary, criminal damage and violent disorder…
The government bears moral responsibility for these prisoners. Yet it appears to have no intention of exercising it,”
Monbiot writes.
“Teuta Hoxha is to be congratulated for her courage in going almost 60 days without food,“
said David White, who led a group to see MP Sarah Jones in Croydon last month and found that nobody was working in her constituency office.
“She and her fellow hunger strikers have drawn attention to legitimate grievances, especially the fact that pro-Palestine protesters, who have not been convicted of any offence, are being imprisoned without trial for periods of well over a year.”
What is Teuta Hoxha’s current medical condition and prognosis?
Teuta Hoxha’s health remains critically fragile after ending her 58- day hunger strike on January 5, 2026, with sympathizers reporting severe deterioration including extreme weight loss, low blood sugar, headaches, mobility issues, skin changes, and pitfalls of cardiac arrest or refeeding pattern.
Medical professionals advised of a” medical exigency” from critically low glucose( around 2.7 mmol/ L before in the strike), electrolyte imbalances, and unforeseen death pitfalls without diurnal monitoring;post-pause, she faces potentially fatal refeeding complications taking specialist oversight.
Without verified ongoing care, prognostic stays guarded prolonged strikes past 45 days frequently yield endless organ damage or neurological issues, with her family and captures For Palestine noting patient symptoms like graying skin and suffocation sensations; full recovery odds depend on captivity medical compliance amid trial detention to April 2026.
