London – Sixteen environmental activists who were imprisoned by actions that include stopping traffic, blocking an oil installation and Splashing a Van Gogh paint with soup I went to a London Court on Wednesday to challenge their sentences. Petroleum Just Stop protesters say they received excessively hard prison terms, between 15 and five years, for disruptive but peaceful actions.
The group argues that imprisoned protesters are “political prisoners” who were “acting in self -defense and to protect our families and communities.”
Environmental Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace UK organizations are supporting the appeals of five of the protesters, who were imprisoned to plan the manifestations of November 2022 who saw The protesters upload floors on an occupied road That surrounds London, growing traffic for hours.
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Other recurring were imprisoned for digging and occupying tunnels under the road that leads to an oil terminal in the southeast of England and throwing soup on the protective vessel on the “sunflowers” of Van Gogh in the National Gallery of London.
The conservative government that lost power in July 2024 hardened anti-protein laws In response to ecoactivists who blocked roads and bridges, they were stuck to trains, works of art splashed with paint, buildings sprayed with false blood and reddish athletes in orange dust to get attention Climate change. In June members of the group I sprinkled some of the mass stones of the Stonehenge site with orange paint.
The Government said the laws prevented extremist activists from taking the economy and interrupting daily life.
Friends of the Earth said that prayers represented a “serious threat to our democracy.”
“Silence those who fight for a better world will not make these increased crises disappear, doing so only serves to quell our democracy,” said the group’s senior lawyer, Katie of Kauwe.
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The Court of the Appeals Court is scheduled to last two days, with the three judges who probably issue their ruling several days or weeks later.
CBS News Members Network BBC News reported On Wednesday that the activists had obtained the support of the great -grandson of one of the most emblematic crusaders of Great Britain for equal rights, Sufragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Pankhurst was one of the first leaders of the suffragist movement who finally won women the right to vote in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century.
His great -granddaughter Helen Pankhurst, who is also an activist of gender equality, compared the actions of climatic activists with those of the suffragists of a century ago.
“Today’s environmental activists are in the same tradition,” Pikhurst said, according to the BBC. “Without a doubt, future generations around the world will thank you for their campaigns.”
