Protestors at The British Museum

BGUK_2482662 - Protestors at The British Museum This lunchtime protestors held a 'read-in' staged outside the Sainsbury Galleries wing where the 'Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt' exhibition opens to the public in a couple of days, just off the iconic Great Court. The protest was to try and get the museum to lend its voice to the international call for the release of prisoners of conscience before the COP27 Climate Summit taking place in November. The protestors recited from 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated' by Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a prominent politicial prisoner who has been on hunger strike since April.