Sixteen environmental activists who were jailed for actions including stopping traffic, blocking an oil facility and splashing a van Gogh painting with soup went to a London court Wednesday to challenge their sentences.

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Climate activists appeal long UK jail terms for 'peaceful protest'

Sixteen Just Stop Oil protesters are appealing their jail sentences.

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Sixteen environmental campaigners seeking to challenge sentences after protests in 2022

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Hundreds of climate protesters stage road sit-in during court appeal over jail terms

Sixteen environmental activists in Britain have gone to court to appeal prison sentences for actions including stopping traffic, blocking an oil facility and splashing a van Gogh painting with soup.

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UK environmental activists appeal against prison sentences they say are unduly harsh

Sixteen environmental activists in Britain have gone to court to appeal prison sentences for actions including stopping traffic, blocking an oil facility and splashing a van Gogh painting with soup

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16 Just Stop Oil activists jailed for up to 5 years over their disruptive but non-violent protests in the U.K. say their sentences were unduly harsh.

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U.K. Just Stop Oil climate activists seek reduction of prison sentences over "self-defense" protests

Sixteen climate campaigners are seeking to challenge the length of their sentences for their involvement in four protests in 2022.

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Climate activists stage sit-down protest outside Royal Courts of Justice

Protesters from the Just Stop Oil movement say that the sentences they received, between 15 months and five years, were too harsh for the actions in question, which they considered disturbing but peaceful. Cited by the Associated Press (AP), the group argues that the 16 plaintiffs are “political prisoners” who were “acting in self-defense to protect” the community. Attorney Danny Frieman, who represented the activists, considered that, if the se…

Os manifestantes do movimento Just Stop Oil dizem que as penas que receberam, entre 15 meses e cinco anos, foram demasiado duras para as ações em causa, que consideraram perturbadoras, mas pacíficas.   Citado pela Associated Press (AP), o grupo argumenta que os 16 queixosos são "prisioneiros políticos" que estavam "a agir em legítima defesa para proteger" a comunidade. O advogado Danny Frieman, que representou os ativistas, considerou que, se as…

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by Clara LALANNEUK prosecutors on Thursday defended the lengthy prison sentences handed down to 16 environmental activists, telling London's Court of Appeal that their actions posed a danger to the public.The activists with the Just Stop Oil (JSO) group last year received prison terms of between 15 months and five years for several stunts, including throwing soup on Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" in London and blocking the M25 motorway around t…

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UK prosecutors defend jail terms of environmental activists

On 29 and 30 January, five activists from the environmental NGO Just Stop Oil appealed after being sentenced to several years in prison for participating in a Zoom meeting.

Cinq activistes de l’ONG environnementale Just Stop Oil ont fait appel, les 29 et 30 janvier, après avoir été condamnés à plusieurs années de prison ferme pour avoir participé à une réunion Zoom.

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UK environmental activists appeal against prison sentences they say are unduly harsh

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