Britain is witnessing a surge in solidarity campaigns with Palestine Action activists on hunger strike in prisons in support of Gaza, while the British government's silence faces sharp criticism both on the street and in legal circles.

Attention has turned toward the UAE following the death of Lebanese citizen Ghazi Ezzeldin under torture on May 4, 2023. He was detained by the authorities in Abu Dhabi on March 22 of the same year.

Egyptian political detainees’ complaints about inhuman conditions in the new Badr prison complex revealed a different aspect of the abuses and pain they are subjected to under the rule of the Sisi regime.