About
Umer was remanded to prison in August 2025, for an alleged connection to an action that took place at RAF Brize Norton, Britain’s largest airforce base, where two military planes were sprayed with red paint. RAF Brize Norton facilitates surveillance missions over Gaza, providing the Israeli army with intelligence, as well as the refuelling of fighter jets and the transportation of weapons to Israel.
Umer is currently being held as a high risk prisoner in HMP Wormwood Scrubs. The prison has blocked access to both his calls and emails, denied him his religious rights, physically assaulted him and placed him in solitary confinement for reciting the call to prayer through his prison door.
Umer joined the hunger strike by a group of prisoners for Palestine in December 2025, with the demands of deproscribing Palestine Action, a right to a fair trial, an end to prison censorship, immediate bail, and that the government re-opens the Gaza enquiry. Umer ended his first hunger strike later in December, at the point Parliament went on recess. On 9th January 2026, Umer began a second hunger strike, adding the demand that the government release the surveillance footage of the murder of British aid workers in Gaza. Umer escalated to a thirst strike, which carried on for five days, and as a result of which he met with the prison governor, was granted his access to post and visits as he should have been since his arrest, but which had so far been denied.
Interests
Islam, politics, educational topics, memes/humor/joke.
Address
Muhammad Umer Khalid (he/him)
Prisoner Number: A4415FH
HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0AE