London, UK
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Heba Muraisi knows exactly what is happening to her body.
“My organs are slowly but surely shutting down,” she said late Monday via phone call from HMP New Hall, a prison in northern England.
The 31-year-old Londoner and pro-Palestinian activist is refusing food as part of a coordinated hunger strike – the longest the United Kingdom has seen in decades.
“I’m pushing through each day, consciously aware of each minute that goes by,” said Muraisi, now on day 73 of her hunger strike. CNN was not able to speak with her directly by phone in prison. Instead, a member of the campaign group Prisoners for Palestine relayed CNN’s…