Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says ‘her body is shutting down’
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A prisoner linked to Palestine Action who is on day 71 of a hunger strike has told a friend: “I’m dying.”
Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, at HMP New Hall, in Wakefield, on Saturday for the first time since the protest began and said she was taken aback by her friend’s appearance.
“I was shocked – I mean I shouldn’t be – at how skinny she is, like a paper thing,” said Nadin. “When I hugged her I felt like if I hugged too hard I would just break her. She has to wear a face mask at the moment because her immune system’s so low, but despite that I could see how her eyes were sunken … She said that she actually struggles to sit down for long periods of time now, because she’s lost all her fat, she’s just sitting on her bones basically.
