“Historic sentencing appeal at Royal Courts of Justice for 16 Just Stop Oil prisoners”
by Kate Bermingham in The Canary @thecanaryuk
“The prisoners include the ‘Whole Truth Five’, sentenced for four to five years each for participating in a zoom call about temporarily blocking the M25. These are the longest prison sentences ever handed down for nonviolent civil disobedience in the UK”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/01/31/just-stop-oil-appeal-protest/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh
#Press #UK #JustStopOil #WholeTruthFive #Nonviolent #Civil #Disobedience #Sentencing
by Kate Bermingham in The Canary @thecanaryuk
“The prisoners include the ‘Whole Truth Five’, sentenced for four to five years each for participating in a zoom call about temporarily blocking the M25. These are the longest prison sentences ever handed down for nonviolent civil disobedience in the UK”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/01/31/just-stop-oil-appeal-protest/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh
#Press #UK #JustStopOil #WholeTruthFive #Nonviolent #Civil #Disobedience #Sentencing
Lord Walney 16 protesters appeal draconian sentences - Canary
It was a defining moment for the climate movement - and the Canary’s Kate Bermingham was on the ground as events unfoldedKate Bermingham (Canary)
