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LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - Five climate activists from the Just Stop Oil protest group were each jailed for at least four years on Thursday over a conspiracy to block London's M25 motorway, marking the longest sentences ever imposed for a non-violent protest in Britain.

The five – including Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam – were charged with conspiracy to cause a public nuisance over a protest where activists disrupted traffic by climbing gantries above the motorway in November 2022.

The prosecution comes amid a wider crackdown on protest movements in Britain and across Europe.

The five pleaded not guilty but were convicted last week after a trial at London's Southwark Crown Court marked by chaotic scenes, with some defendants arrested in court for defying the judge's rulings on their evidence.

Judge Christopher Hehir said there had been "an unprecedented level of deliberate disruption" and suggested Hallam, who he said was arrested three times, tried to "turn the trial into a piece of direct action protest".

Protesters who held placards outside the court were also arrested for alleged contempt of court, though Hehir said the proceedings against the 11 who were arrested had been dropped.

Prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward said the economic cost of the protests was at least 770,000 pounds ($1 million) and caused delays for thousands of people.

Hehir said that "this was a conspiracy to cause extreme and disproportionate disruption", adding: "Each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/five-uk-climate-protesters-jailed-conspiracy-block-major-road-2024-07-18/

Dem don start

What's the essence of this post now? Anyways 9ja no be uk

Hope ndi developers are ready to block major roads …. Suicide mission


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Introduction to Gaslighting 101--- APC una papa


Guys, have you noticed that your chilling neighbor have lost weight and you

Abuja no b Lagos,
Nigeria no b Lagos

Meanwhile: serious hold up caused by military check point @ Abacha Barracks

I can't wait for August 1st😎...

Climate change protesters

Uk no be Lagos.

This is the kind of news the Nigerian government would love to emulate and replicate against their own citizens, but they rarely initiate or adopt the positive developments and progressive policies happening in the UK and implement them in Nigeria, their own country.

Now, when they jail a protester for exercising their democratic rights, their justification will be like...

'Even in the UK, protesters are jailed for blocking the highway or disrupting public order',


while ignoring the UK's robust mechanisms for protecting citizens' rights and freedoms

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Omoh

Tyrannical leadership everywhere you go globally.

Shut up

nawa

How come this thread made it to the front page?

Why bringing this up now?

In essence

Ipob ehnnn

We need to follow UK pattern in healthcare, politics, minimum wage, education, employment, social welfare etc.

It is laughable to show us protesters who were jailed in UK while neglecting other things happening in UK

Meaning Nigerians should not protests for a better Nigeria

Because they will free jail term abi?

But wat is the focus of this forum precisely cos I no understand again.

Nonsense..

This is gaslighting.!!

If we stay on one side of the road and control the traffic on the other side,, we have not caused anything.

If we even blocked a road totally but gave diversion signs to alternative routes,, we can easily defend ourselves.

saintbillion:
What's the essence of this post now? Anyways 9ja no be uk

Lol. You know the essence. Just dey play.

A typical sponsored post to scare people from protesting against bad govt policies

Yes, protesters gets 4 yr jail in the UK.

We Don hear..

Now tell us the minimum wage in the U.K?

The security situation in the UK?

The educational sector in the UK?

The Healthcare sector in the UK?

Job/ employment in the UK?

The website for citizens to apply for government jobs in the UK?

Election transparency in the UK?

Corrupt politicians in the UK vs Corrupt politicians in Nigeria?


So don't just post up about in a sane climate, protesters get 4 yrs in jail..

Also tell us what citizens in the sane climate enjoy

Not only about this, Op please tell us about living standards in UK and that of Nigeria

metaverse2:

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/five-uk-climate-protesters-jailed-conspiracy-block-major-road-2024-07-18/

Imagine wetin Dem dey protest for!

They have got a lot of things working for them, that's why they can come and protest over climate change and other things that does not and may never make sense for the average African.

All we are saying!
Give us better governance that the people of UK now see as basic right.
End corruption in such a way that indictment would make a crooked official resign promptly.
Provide social services like is obtainable in the UK so that our people would not be contributing money to them in the name of Visa fees and tuition when we know jakpa is the goal, jakpa from bad government and economic woes.

Just wait and see how Batists and Apcists will make a mountain out of this mole by citing a civilized clime.

They’ll hold onto this as a yardstick but won’t reference that the UK government didn’t send thugs and MC Oluomo to infiltrate their ranks.

That one na UK ni ooo

No one was jailed for the Ojota protest in 2012

KARMA IS A RAPIST