{"id":15578,"date":"2026-01-25T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15578"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:16:35","slug":"arrests-after-protesters-breach-london-prison-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15578","title":{"rendered":"Arrests after protesters breach London prison grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A group of 86 protesters who allegedly breached prison grounds at west London&#8217;s Wormwood Scrubs jail have been arrested, the Metropolitan Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The force said the group were &#8220;protesting in support of a Palestine Action prisoner on a hunger strike&#8221;, and allegedly threatened police and stopped prison staff from entering and exiting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Prisoners for Palestine campaign group identified the inmate as Muhammad Umer Khalid, 22, who they say began a thirst strike on Friday. He is awaiting trial over a break-in at RAF Brize Norton last June. He denies the charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">All those involved will be arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass after refusing to leave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;A number managed to get inside a staff entrance area of a prison building,&#8221; the Met said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said that &#8220;at no point was prison security compromised&#8221; and called the action an &#8220;escalation&#8221; that was &#8220;completely unacceptable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;While we support the right to peacefully protest, reports of trespassing and threats being made to staff and police officers are deeply concerning,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Prisoners for Palestine accused the police of carrying out a &#8220;violent and wildly disproportionate response&#8221; to the protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The group said Khalid has limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, a genetic condition, and was on an &#8220;extremely dangerous&#8221; thirst strike.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Arrests #protesters #breach #London #prison #grounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 86 protesters who a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}