The two Gurkha veterans and a Gurkha widow hunger-striking for pension parity equal to British counterparts reached their fifth day of protest opposite Downing Street (August 11).

Police decided to enforce a bylaw specific to the area on the 10th removing their gazabo structure and touching religious articles. During early morning of the 11th police entered the pen again in order to take down large umbrellas causing distress to the protesters in their late 50s to early 60s in an already weakened state from lack of food and living outside, leaving them exposed entirely to the elements.

Gurkha soldiers who retired after WWII and before 1997 received a pension based on living costs in Nepal, leaving veterans based in the UK with very little to survive on.