Dan was remanded to prison in July 2025, for an alleged connection to a direct action which took place at the UK’s largest Royal Airforce (RAF) base, RAF Brize Norton. Actionists rode up to two war planes and sprayed them with red paint. Symbolising the blood of generations of Palestinians tortured, displaced and martyred by the zionist state of Israel. Those planes have directly participated in the genocide in Gaza.
Dan was inexplicably moved from prison to prison during his initial months on remand – first Wormwood Scrubs, then Belmarsh, then HMP Exeter, 170 miles away from his friends and family. The mammoth distance made it all the harder for those who love Dan to visit him and those who support Dan to rally for him, further isolating him from the movement. However finally, after efforts from his legal team and a very long wait Dan was recently moved to a prison in Kent.
Despite attempts by the system to break Dan’s spirit, he remains resolute, full of heart and of hope. To you and I, he says: “The walls of this cell are thick, but they cannot contain my conscience, nor silence my solidarity. My heart is with the people of Palestine, in Gaza, in the West Bank, in exile, and in the diaspora. The courage of the Palestinian people shows us that the human spirit endures. From my prison cell I send love, resistance and hope.”
Dan’s trial has been set for January 2027 and it’s possible the state will keep him imprisoned until that time, meaning he would have spent 1.5 years in a cell before having his day(s) in court. 18 months spent on remand.
Interests
Art (Dan is an artist!), poetry (currently enjoying: Benjamin Zephaniah), Eastenders (got back into it since imprisonment), sea swimming, dystopian (but hopeful) sci-fi, inventive ways of
making do in prison, gigs he can dance at. He’s recently got into coffee, but he’s a tea guy at heart.
Address
Daniel Jeronymides-Norie (he/him)
Prisoner number: A1127FH
HMP/YOI Elmley, Church Road, Eastchurch, Sheerness, Kent. ME12 4DZ