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
Read the petition or this 🧵 1/
Clare Hinchcliffe
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Clare Hinchcliffe
@Subversivite
Mother of former political prisoner Zoe Rogers, one of the #Filton25
Mostly on Instagram at @subversivite
- The story of my daughter Zoe, in prison awaiting trial, for acting against an Israeli weapons firm. Thanks @Annareporting 🙏 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… *Terrorism* is a shocking allegation that should worry us all. Please sign the petition Bit.ly/Filton10Petiti…
- My daughter has been in prison without trial for over 10 months now because of this abuse of counter terror powers 👇 Proscribing @pal_action as a terror group will put 100s more in prison for opposing genocide 🚨 This move MUST be opposed 🚨🚨BREAKING: We’re deeply concerned at the use of counter terrorism powers to target protest groups. This is the latest in a succession of measures taken by the UK government to clamp down on protest in the UK.
- Right. So Keir Starmer, who is complicit in war crimes by selling arms to Israel, is not in prison But my daughter Zoe, who took action against an Israeli arms factory in the UK, *is* in prison (6 months without trial & counting) 🤔
- Replying to @SubversiviteZoe 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 💔 2/
- I'm in tears seeing this - Zoe on the front cover of @ObserverUK this morning Huge thanks to @thejohnsimpson for telling her story observer.co.uk/news/national/…
- Replying to @SubversiviteBut 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 8/
- My daughter Zoe is a UK political prisoner. Here's the story so far, and why *you* should join us at the Old Bailey on Thursday... A thread 1/
- Last week was the latest pre-trial hearing for my daughter & the Filton 18. All are charged in connection with direct action against Israeli weapons factory Elbit Systems in Bristol, where 6 of them damaged quadcopter drones of the kind seen used in Gaza. A thread... 1/
- Replying to @SubversiviteShe 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 3/
- Replying to @SubversivitePal 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 4/
- Replying to @SubversiviteThey 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 💔💔💔 7/
- Replying to @SubversiviteNow 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? google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg… 6/
- Replying to @SubversiviteThe 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 5/
