Prison: HMP Bronzefield
Prisoner number: A9259FE
On remand since: November 19th 2024
Trial date: April 2026
Qesser was arrested in a dawn raid on November 19th by counter-terrorism police in the third wave of Filton arrests. She was held and interrogated under counter-terrorism powers, and then remanded to prison for a non-terrorism related offence on allegations of being connected to the Filton action, which saw over £1 million in damage caused to Elbit’s research centre for Israeli weapons, making her one of the Filton 24. Arrested at 19, she was previously the youngest activist imprisoned for allegedly taking action for Palestine until her younger brother Salaam, 18 years old, was arrested by counter-terrorism police on 15th July 2025 and remanded in the fourth wave of Filton arrests. She has since spent her 20th birthday behind bars.
Qesser’s rights and freedoms have constantly been abused by the prison, including arbitrary restrictions on visits, closed visits, and being put into solitary confinement. Prison staff have forced her to remove her kuffiyah hijab, and confiscated all of her hijabs with the kuffiyah pattern from her cell. Her cell has also been searched without reason or respect for her privacy; on one occasion a guard stormed into her cell without his body cam on to rip off the flowers she had put in her window, each symbolising a Palestinian martyr. Qesser has also been subjected to physical violence and has been assaulted and sexualised by the prison guards. Still, she remains unbreakable, reminding us that resistance “is our obligation, not our choice.”
Listen to her words when she says: “They won’t imprison us all, they know if they fill the prisons with activists, we will overpower them from within. So flood the damn streets in your millions. Shut down these factories in your thousands! They can never arrest the resistance in our smiles. We will use the shards of our broken hearts to spear the system of injustice.”