The suggestion that we should ‘"expect a hunger striker to die" is ethically problematic and also fails to recognise the extents to which traumatic pasts and the experience of undocumented migration can take their toll upon vulnerable people.
Time is running out for Isa Muazu, a failed asylum seeker on hunger strike in Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre. We can only hope that when the judgment is delivered on his case that it shows some regard for the entangled and spiraling conditions that have brought him thus far