Greta Thunberg arrested supporting hunger-strikers

Greta Thunberg was arrested in central London while supporting pro-Palestinian activists who were on hunger strike to protest their imprisonment while awaiting trial on charges related to a series of previous demonstrations.

Protest group Prisoners of Palestine shared a video on Tuesday showing the 22-year-old Swede holding a sign supporting hunger strikers and their organization known as Palestine Action.

The British government banned Palestine Action as a terrorist organization earlier this year.

The protests were part of a larger demonstration in which two other activists sprayed red paint outside an insurance company in London, in an area known as the center of Britain’s financial services industry.

Prisoners of Palestine say they targeted the insurance company because it supports Israeli-linked defense firm Elbit Systems.

City of London police said a man and a woman were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.

A third woman was later arrested on suspicion of supporting a banned organisation.

British police generally do not identify suspects by name before they are charged.

Eight Palestine Movement members staged a hunger strike to protest their detention without bail while awaiting trial on various charges related to previous protests across the country.

Palestinian Prisoners said in a statement that the first two prisoners to join the protest had been on hunger strike for 52 days and were “at a critical stage where death is a real possibility.”

The British government has so far refused to intervene in the judicial process, saying questions about bail and detention are matters for the courts to decide.