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Climate change activists who were jailed for up to five years for their involvement in various demonstrations "did what they did out of sacrifice" and should have their sentences reduced, the ...
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 ...
The pair received significant homophobic abuse from social media and right-wing newspapers following the incident, though their actions inspired several subsequent climate activists to throw food at paintings around the world, including mashed potato in Germany at a Claude Monet painting and maple syrup in Canada [10] at an Emily Carr painting ...
Later in 2017, Hallam was a leading member of activist group Stop Killing Londoners, [20] an anti-pollution campaign [21] of mass civil disobedience that they hoped would result in the arrest and imprisonment of activists. [22] Hallam with Stuart Basden, Ian Bray and Genny Scherer were prosecuted and some pledged to go on hunger strike if ...
Since climate activists are being disproportionately charged compared to participants in the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, onlookers might believe climate activists are truly a threat to the ...
Montana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 2023 ruling siding with young climate activists who asserted the state government violated their right to a healthy environment. In August 2023 ...
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 ...
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