24/04/2026
I am still a political prisoner of the British state. My cell is a huge house, the prison walls are the UK borders, and I don't get free food anymore, but my freedom of movement has been taken from me, even though I've not been convicted of any crime, haven't harmed anyone or risked doing so, and explained to the court over and over again that the assumption that I would try to dodge my trial is as insulting as it is ridiculous: I spraypainted a war criminal's statue in front of parliament and waited 15 minutes for the police to finally show up and arrest me, because I want to go to court, because the court is where justice should be spoken, and I'm all about justice.
Other political prisoners in this country have been treated way worse than I am, but I'm not grateful for being punished less. I'm outraged that we're being punished at all.
Since my arrest, I've documented all the human rights violations inflicted on me. At least 13 articles of the European Convention on Human Rights have been disrespected. I've been discriminated against for my beliefs every single day I was in prison.
And as I, a well-educated white cis man, not allowed to dress gendernonconformly so basically straight, was treated as a non-concious object in a processing machine, I've seen people less privileged than I treated way, way worse.
The UK legal system is to be considered undemocratic and inhumane. There is nothing a human can do to deserve being treated like prisoners are in this country.
And I am still a prisoner.
