#zoerogers

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

I’ve been quiet on here because my life has been turned upside down. My daughter Zoe is in prison 💔

She’s being treated like a terrorist for taking action against an Israeli arms firm

Zoe is one of 10 activists in prison on remand for action against an Elbit Systems facility in Filton, Bristol, in August

She spent her 21st birthday in prison 💔

photo-of-zoe-with-dog

She was horrified by the genocide and went on ALL the marches. But she could see nothing was working. She felt overwhelmed & powerless as the death toll in Gaza rose

Then she decided on direct action with @Pal_action

Pal Action target Elbit, Israel’s biggest arms supplier - who make the deadly drones that play sounds of kids crying, to lure people outside & kill them

Inside Elbit’s Bristol facility, the activists found drones like those used in Gaza and dismantled some

The use of counter terror powers against them is unprecedented. The 10 were held without charge in solitary, incommunicado, and interrogated for hours every day for 7 days under the Terrorism Act

Now charged with non-terrorist offences, they are still being treated like terror suspects.

Could this have anything to do with meetings between the Home Office and Elbit Systems UK about @Pal_action activists?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/activists-say-they-have-proof-ministers-tried-to-influence-police-over-israeli-arms-firm-protests

They have all been refused bail, and with the trial being in November 2025, they will have spent 17 months in prison before it starts

I miss her so much 💔💔💔

But I’m proud of her. She would rather lose her liberty and her place in uni than hear of another child’s death in Gaza, having done nothing to stop it

She wrote this poem

— Clare Rogers, on x/twitter, about her daughter Zoe Rogers

#ClareRogers #ZoeRogers #PalestineAction #Palestine #Gaza #genocide