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Later in 2017, Hallam was a leading member of activist group Stop Killing Londoners, [19] an anti-pollution campaign [20] of mass civil disobedience that they hoped would result in the arrest and imprisonment of activists. [21] Hallam with Stuart Basden, Ian Bray and Genny Scherer were prosecuted and some pledged to go on hunger strike if ...
The activists were convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance after they organised protests to block the M25 motorway in November 2022. Roger Hallam , co-founder of Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion , was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, while his fellow activists Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and ...
In August 2024, a male 65-year-old activist was sentenced to a 22-month prison term without parole after having been found guilty of coercion, attempted coercion and resisting law enforcement officers. The sentencing covered 40 street blockades, during some of which the defendant had glued himself to the street.
Two climate activists accused of throwing a red powder on the U.S. Constitution display case at the National Archives earlier this year have been sentenced to more than a year in prison, The ...
An international climate advocacy organization called on President Biden to pardon four activists charged with felonies in connection with climate demonstrations before leaving office. Two of the ...
Cambridge University music student Cressida Gethin, 22, scaled the gantry to protest the UK reaching its hottest temperature on record, 40C.
Deanna Maree "Violet" Coco, [1] (born 1989 or 1990) usually known as Violet CoCo, is an Australian climate activist who was briefly jailed on remand for blocking the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 2022. She successfully appealed her 15-month jail sentence, with the convictions remaining, in March 2023, after the judge found that her conviction was ...
The two Just Stop Oil protesters threw tins of Heinz tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, damaging its frame.