(LBC) A 20-year-old Londoner has been charged with two counts of expressing support for Hamas.
Sarah Cotte, from Camden in North London, was arrested for making a public speech in October 2023 in which she appeared to endorse and celebrate the October 7 attacks on Israel.
A second charge relates to similar comments allegedly made on a WhatsApp group.
Cotte was a member of the Fight Racism Fight Imperialism (SOAS FRFI), a society at the SOAS University of London.
A clip of her speech was later posted to X.
She could be heard saying: “We at SOAS Fight Racism Fight Imperialism express our unconditional solidarity with the Palestinian armed resistance who have broken free from their open-air prison in Gaza and are rising across an occupied country, against the Zionist state which has been bleeding Palestine dry for nearly eighty years.”
