“Facing several years of imprisonment for taking part in a Zoom call – this is something I have not seen anywhere else and it is shockingly disproportionate.” – UN rapporteur for environmental defenders, Michel Forst

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/12/contempt-gagging-un-intervention-uk-wildest-climate-trial-just-stop-oil

#climateCrisis #JustStopOil #climateDefenders #protest #repression #judicialPersecution

#Contempt, #gagging and #UN intervention: inside the #UK’s wildest ClimateTrial

Prosecution of five #JustStopOil activists over #M25Protest led to chaotic scenes in court and concerns about ‘#JudicialPersecution’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/12/contempt-gagging-un-intervention-uk-wildest-climate-trial-just-stop-oil