{"id":2758,"date":"2025-01-29T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-k-just-stop-oil-climate-activists-seek-reduction-of-prison-sentences-over-self-defense-protests\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T14:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:18:23","slug":"u-k-just-stop-oil-climate-activists-seek-reduction-of-prison-sentences-over-self-defense-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-k-just-stop-oil-climate-activists-seek-reduction-of-prison-sentences-over-self-defense-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Just Stop Oil climate activists seek reduction of prison sentences over &#8220;self-defense&#8221; protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>London \u2014<\/em>\u00a0Sixteen environmental activists who were jailed for actions including stopping traffic, blocking an oil facility and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/eco-activists-soup-vincent-van-gogh-sunflowers-painting-sentenced\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">splashing a van Gogh painting with soup<\/a><\/span> went to a London court Wednesday to challenge their sentences. The Just Stop Oil protesters say they received unduly harsh prison terms \u2014 between 15 months and five years \u2014 for disruptive but peaceful actions.<\/p>\n<p> The group argues that the jailed protesters are &#8220;political prisoners&#8221; who were &#8220;acting in self-defense and to protect our families and communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Environmental organizations Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace U.K. are backing the appeals of five of the protesters, who were jailed for planning November 2022 demonstrations that saw <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/climate-change-protest-just-stop-oil-london-m25-uk-oil-gas-fossil-fuel-cop27\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">protesters climb gantries above a busy highway<\/a><\/span> that encircles London, snarling traffic for hours.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"just-stop-oil-m25-protest.jpg \" height=\"354\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2022\/11\/07\/786ec689-2ba0-4d21-9abc-61d868831ce7\/thumbnail\/620x354g3\/ba09ffe13a51858ac84c32cd3d9ee939\/just-stop-oil-m25-protest.jpg?v=d4034f91d2441fe84007132fdf593e3f 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2022\/11\/07\/786ec689-2ba0-4d21-9abc-61d868831ce7\/thumbnail\/1240x708g3\/f0112fe5f6698cc88b90c387d017f338\/just-stop-oil-m25-protest.jpg?v=d4034f91d2441fe84007132fdf593e3f 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">In a video posted on social media on Nov. 7, 2022 by the eco-activist group Just Stop Oil, a protester stands on framework for highway signage over the M25 near London and explains the group&#8217;s motivations for blocking traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Just Stop Oil\/Twitter<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other appellants were jailed for digging and occupying tunnels under the road leading to an oil terminal in southeast England and throwing soup onto the protective glass over van Gogh&#8217;s &#8220;Sunflowers&#8221; at London&#8217;s National Gallery.<\/p>\n<p> The Conservative government that lost power in July 2024 <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kill-the-bill-protest-bristol-uk-police-injured-legislation-policing-powers-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">toughened anti-protest laws<\/a><\/span> in response to eco-activists who blocked roads and bridges, glued themselves to trains, splattered artworks with paint, sprayed buildings with fake blood and doused athletes in orange powder to draw attention to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">climate change<\/a><\/span>. In June members of the group <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/stonehenge-just-stop-oil-protest-activists-spray-orange-paint-demand-uk-stop-fossil-fuel\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">sprayed some of the massive stones<\/a><\/span> of the Stonehenge site with orange paint.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The government said the laws prevented extremist activists from hurting the economy and disrupting daily life.<\/p>\n<p> Friends of the Earth said the sentences posed a &#8220;serious threat to our democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Silencing those striving for a better world will not make these escalating crises disappear \u2014 doing so only serves to stifle our democracy,&#8221; the group&#8217;s senior lawyer Katie de Kauwe said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"Climate protesters demonstrate at the National Gallery in London \" height=\"449\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/01\/28\/33c94060-ec3f-47ac-b9eb-6574cdfa2b4b\/thumbnail\/620x449\/1373891af54edb2cd1cacc08a8b863b6\/gettyimages-1243970412.jpg?v=d4034f91d2441fe84007132fdf593e3f 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/01\/28\/33c94060-ec3f-47ac-b9eb-6574cdfa2b4b\/thumbnail\/1240x898\/423f423fa276e8887a63949059589e9a\/gettyimages-1243970412.jpg?v=d4034f91d2441fe84007132fdf593e3f 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Climate protesters threw cans of tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh&#8217;s &#8220;Sunflowers&#8221; painting at the National Gallery in London, England, Oct. 14, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Just Stop Oil \/Handout\/Anadolu Agency via Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Court of Appeal hearing is scheduled to last two days, with the three judges likely to hand down their ruling several days or weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News&#8217; partner network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czepw4e4p6jo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC News reported<\/a> Wednesday that the activists had gained the support of the great-granddaughter of one of Britain&#8217;s most iconic crusaders for equal rights, suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Pankhurst was among the early leaders of the suffrage movement that eventually won women the right to vote in the U.K. in the early 20th century. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her great-granddaughter Helen Pankhurst, who is also a campaigner for gender equality, compared the climate activists actions to those of the suffragettes of a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Environmental activists today stand in the same tradition,&#8221; Pankhurst said, according to the BBC. &#8220;I have no doubt future generations around the world will thank them for their campaigns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<div class=\"component__heading-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"component__title\">ClimateWatch: Climate Change News &amp; Features<\/h3>\n<p>                      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/climate-change\/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a\" 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