Fight for Justice:

The Targeting and Prosecution of Farah Damji by the British State


Farah Damji’s story exposes a deep and troubling fault line within the British justice system. Once celebrated as a writer, campaigner, and founder of The View Magazine—a platform for women with lived experience of prison—Farah now finds herself fighting for her life and freedom from within a system determined to silence her. Her case reveals how the Metropolitan Police, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), and judiciary have used their power to criminalise a woman who dared to expose institutional injustice

A Campaign of Persecution

Farah, a British-Asian journalist and entrepreneur, was diagnosed in 2023 with aggressive stage 3 HER 2 positive aggressive breast cancer. Despite her life-threatening illness, she was remanded to custody in March 2024. After surgery at University College London Hospital, she spent three months battling infections before being sent back to HMP Bronzefield in July 2024—without a care plan or access to urgent chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Her prognosis is dire: a 20% chance of survival over the next decade.
Instead of compassion, Farah faced contempt. She has long been a target of institutional hostility due to her work exposing corruption, misogyny, and racial bias in the criminal justice system. For example, in 2006, her friend Lily was being raped by a Governor and two officers at HMP Downview. Lily had been sex trafficked as a child by her father a General in the Colombian Millitary and she refused to accept the she was being raped because this governor bought her Mars bars and mascara in return for oral sex. After years of complaining about this misconduct, the governor was finally imprisoned for 6 years for misconduct in public office.
More recently, she has exposed corruption and serious misconduct at HMP Bronzefield run by Sodexo Ltd and calling for this privately run prison to be broughtback to the public sector. The Met Police and CPS have pursued her relentlessly, while courts have accepted unproven, prejudicial claims against her as fact. Evidence of her medical needs and human rights has repeatedly been ignored.
Farah is now serving a six-year sentence for alleged stalking and theft—charges built on inconsistent testimony and sensationalised immediately after her sentencing hearing on 11th July 2025 in a press release published by the Judiciary and The Ministry Of Justice. The case typifies a pattern of state retaliation against whistleblowers and women who challenge systemic abuse.

Silenced for Speaking Out

For over two decades, Farah Damji has been a powerful advocate for justice reform in the UK. She has written for The Observer, The Daily Mail, The New Statesman, and The Times of India, and ran IndoBrit, a pioneering magazine for second-generation British Asians. She also wrote a column for The Birmingham post for 2 years. In 2008, she founded a housing initiative for women leaving HMP Holloway, providing supported accommodation for more than 90 former prisoners.
Her activism often placed her in direct conflict with state institutions. In 2010, she gave evidence to the Armed Forces Bill Committee about PTSD among British veterans—at a time when the Ministry of Defence was denying the disorder’s prevalence. Soon after, she was threatened by government officials and became the target of a smear campaign by journalist David Leppard, linked to MI5.
Farah went on to hold conferences in Parliament on women’s incarceration alongside Jeremy Corbyn MP, Baroness Uddin, and other reform advocates. Her testimony before the Justice Committee and Women and Equalities Select Committee exposed the neglect and abuse suffered by women in UK prisons. Through The View Magazine and The Rebel Justice Podcast, she has given voice to hundreds of women silenced by the system.

Unlawful Recalls and Human Rights Violations

Farah has been unlawfully recalled to prison three times—each instance violating the Ministry of Justice’s own Licence Conditions Policy Framework. These recalls were based on vague “good behaviour” clauses, not actual breaches or new offences. The courts have ruled in similar cases—such as R (Hussain) v Secretary of State for Justice—that recalls must be grounded in clear, objective evidence of risk to public safety. Farah’s recalls, instead, reflect a pattern of harassment and discrimination against vocal critics of the justice system.
In 2022, she launched a High Court challenge to these unlawful recalls (Appeal Reference: CC/642024). During her hospitalisation in July 2024, she was suddenly informed of a hearing—without prior notice or access to legal documents. Her defence solicitor failed to forward crucial materials, further undermining her right to a fair hearing.
These procedural violations—denial of legal representation, ignored correspondence, and unequal treatment before the court—demonstrate how deeply systemic bias has corrupted due process in her case.

A System Determined to Break Her

The Ministry of Justice and judiciary have gone so far as to publish her sentencing remarks online, portraying her as a manipulative, poor “brown immigrant” who “latches onto powerful men.” This racialised and sexist language dehumanises her and feeds a hostile media narrative. In the same press release, her name was deliberately mentioned alongside Constance Marten, a convicted child killer—a grotesque attempt to vilify her further.
Farah’s experience mirrors the findings of the Broken Trust Report, which documents the over-representation of women in prison, especially those recalled for technical or minor breaches. In 2022, she was forced to live in approved premises in birmingham, crowley house where there was legionnaires disease in the water. She complained about the ,manager stealing food that was donated to the residents by the local foodbank and she was recalled under the pretence of the good behaviour licence condition.The Offender Rehabilitation Act (2014) worsened this problem, enabling probation officers—without judicial oversight—to recall women to prison for non-criminal conduct.

Justice Denied, Humanity Ignored

Beyond the legal injustices, Farah’s medical neglect inside HMP Bronzefield amounts to cruel and inhumane treatment. Despite assurances from the UK Government during her extradition from Ireland in 2022 that she would receive immediate mental health, those promises made by Phill Copple, a former director General of HMPPS, never transpired. She continues to be denied essential treatment, in violation of the UN Mandela Rules and Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Harvard-trained psychotherapist Susan Pease Banitt describes Farah as “a highly intelligent visionary who mobilizes people for good… despite all her difficulties and injustices.” Yet the British state treats her as a threat rather than a survivor—punishing her for resilience and courage.

Stand with Farah

Farah Damji’s persecution represents more than one woman’s ordeal—it reveals a justice system that criminalises vulnerability, silences dissent, and targets those who demand reform.
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