Young protesters face more than a year in prison before going on trial over a break-in at an Israeli arms factory near Bristol.
Clare Rogers found out that her 21-year-old daughter Zoe had been arrested when police knocked on her door in the early hours of the morning this August.
“It’s been absolutely horrific, I don’t even know where to start,” Clare told Declassified. Zoe, a pro-Palestine activist, “was interrogated for seven days without charge, often in the middle of the night in a windowless cell.”
Clare was unable to speak to Zoe during this period, but later found out her cell “was lit by a strip light and every hour a guard would come up to the door and loudly open the hatch, meaning she wouldn’t sleep.”
Zoe has not been released and is among 18 members of the campaign group Palestine Action denied bail and held on remand.
They are accused of breaking into a factory owned by Israel’s largest arms company, Elbit Systems. (more...)
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