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‘My daughter Zoe is not a terrorist. Why has she spent a year in prison?’

John Simpson

Home Affairs Editor

‘My daughter Zoe is not a terrorist. Why has she spent a year in prison?’

The mother of jailed Palestine Action protester says she is proud of her and angry at the UK government

Zoe Rogers has not been charged with a terrorist offence. On Saturday, she marked a year in detention without trial inside HMP Bronzefield, a high-security prison in Surrey.

Rogers, 21, was arrested during a Palestine Action raid on a site run by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit in Filton, near Bristol, last August.

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