Al-Ahrar Toronto extends our deepest militant solidarities towards hunger striker and political prisoner T. Hoxha of the Filton-24 who has been incarcerated in the UK for 9 months without trial.
August 10th is Prisoners’ Justice Day, where thousands of prisoners across the imperial core go on hunger strike for one day to honour martyrs of the prison injustice system. Just one day later, on August 11th 2025, T. Hoxha began her hunger strike in response to her own worsening prison conditions.
T’s hunger strike demands, still unmet, include receiving her mail that the prison system is depriving her of and to have her job at the library reinstated. Al-Ahrar Toronto calls on the HM Prison Service to fully meet T’s demands and provide her with the appropriate medical care that she requires as a result of the hunger strike.
Solidarity Across Borders
Another political prisoner of the Palestine solidarity movement, their cellmate, and a captive of the 2020 Movement for Black Lives have joined T’s hunger strike in support of her demands. These political prisoners are Casey Goonan and their cellmate, and Malik Farrad Muhammad.
Casey Goonan: As the Western left continues to move from crisis to crisis, avoiding their responsibilities to Palestine, we are all that we have. By we I am referring to people facing repression for their support for Palestine, the people who are truly sacrificing. Such as T Hoxha, who has suffered through 16 days of starvation just to get her mail.
— Read Casey’s full statement of support with T. Hoxha
Malik Farrad Muhammad: Resistance is essence and solidarity foundational. International solidarity is imperative. If Palestinian prisoners know and care about the Pelican Bay hunger strikes, then we should care about them and our siblings everyday who are captured and held unjustly. Do not let imaginary borders and fascist nations tell you it doesn’t matter because it’s happening “over there.” All struggle is connected, all movements dire. Direct action is imperative.
— Read Malik’s full statement of support with T. Hoxha
Carrying the Torch
These four hunger strikers carry the torch of an extensive history of political prisoners using their bodies as tools for revolution. Prisoners, especially Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Zionist prisons, have access to very few tools, so their bodies become a vehicle for political action.
In 2011 and 2012, thousands of Palestinian prisoners went on hunger strike to protest horrific prison conditions and the Zionist use of administrative detention— this being detention without trial that is often for indefinite periods of time or continusouly arbitrarily extended.
In 2013, tens of thousands of prisoners of the California prison system went on hunger strike to protest the use of solidarity confinement at Pelican Bay, as Malik references in his solidarity statement above. Understanding the deep relationship between Palestinian prisoners and prisoners incarcerated within settler-colonial prisons across Turtle Island, Palestinian Islamic Jihad martyr leader and political prisoner Sheikh Khader Adnan extended his solidarity to California hunger strikers saying…
“The policy of isolation is a cheap weapon in the hands of those who hold power. The policy of isolation is used against American citizens who are victims of the political, economic and social order/system that thrives on greed, discrimination and the deprived, including the African-Americans and Palestinian resistors such as Sameeh Hamoudeh and Sami Al-Aryan…
“Hunger strikes are a courageous step and a real tool for all those who are deprived of their rights to lift the existing oppression, and I hope that these prisoners will gain their rights and their demands. Today, the hunger strikes of the Palestinian prisoners inspire those who are detained to engage in hunger strikes to guarantee that they are treated humanely and with respect and dignity.”
T. Hoxha’s hunger strike in particular fits within the history of political prisoners of British imperialism taking action inside prison walls. Bobby Sands of the IRA was notably martyred after a 66 day long hunger strike. Following the martyrdom of nine more incarcerated IRA members, and intense pressure through protests, the British government finally met some of the prisoners’ demands.
We Keep Resisting
The imprisonment of T. Hoxha, the rest of the Filton-24, Casey Goonan, and many more recently incarcerated political prisoners is just another imperialist attack on the global Palestine solidarity movement. These attacks on individual activists goes hand-in-hand with the criminalization of organizations like Palestine Action which was recently proscribed as a so-called “terrorist” organization by the UK.
With their operations against weapons manufactuers and their subsidiaries, Palestine Action successfully and materially threw a wrench into the war machine that turns the wheels of genocide. This posed a deep threat to British imperialism and their stake in the Zionist project. Al-Ahrar Toronto stands with Palestine Action and their ongoing battle against the British government to unproscribe their organization, just like we stand with Hamas as they do the same.
Al-Ahrar Toronto reaffirms our solidarity towards hunger strikers T. Hoxha, Casey Goonan and their cellmate, and Malik Farrad Muhammad and we call for the British HMPS to meet T’s demands and provide her with the appropriate medical care that she requires as a result of the hunger strike.
Seeing prisoners take on this brave act of solidarity, while they themselves are under the cruelest of conditions affirms that they are the compass of the struggle. Furthermore, it forces us to ask ourselves how we are utilizing our place of privilege to engage in meaningful solidarity with those on the front lines of this fight, whether on the battle field or in a prison cell.
We call on all people of conscience across the world to uplift the demands and calls for freedom of all prisoners of the Palestinian liberation movement from within occupied Palestine to inside the heart of empire in the West. Prisoners are the compass of our struggle is not just a metaphor but a call to action about materializing our solidarity. From T. Hoxha to Anan Yaeesh to Ahmad Sa’adat, FREE THEM ALL!
Free the Filton-24!
Free Casey Goonan!
Free Malik Farrad Muhammad!
Free All Political Prisoners!
Free, Free Palestine!
Globalize the Intifada!
Calls to Action and Toolkit
We amplify the following calls to action put out by T’s support team and encourage all to spread the word:
Email the Prison Governor at ralph.lubkowski@sodexogov.co.uk
Call HMP Peterborough at +44173217500
Toolkit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yxIYqU-ql7mJ-veozApe-aS2fqZtPcnWgycgNeM1U3o/edit?tab=t.0
