FIVE Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists who were given record jail time after attending a Zoom call formally launched an appeal against the sentences, legal charity Plan B Earth announced today.
Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin were imprisoned for co-ordinating a peaceful action on the M25 over Zoom in November 2022.
The action aimed to press the government to halt new oil and gas licences, something that has since been implemented by Labour since it took office.
They were convicted of “conspiracy to cause a public nuisance” under the Tories’ draconian Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act.
Mr Hallam, co-founder of JSO, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment — the longest for a peaceful action in Britain — while the four others were each jailed last month for four years.
So far, those convicted for their part in racist riots over the last weeks have been sentenced to between two months and three years in prison.
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