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Climate activists – out of prison for now, but still effectively silenced. - Real Media - The News You Don't See
https://realmedia.press/climate-activists-silenced/
This morning at Wood Green Crown Court in North London, Judge J. Dodd QC freed Extinction Rebellion founder Roger Hallam, and retired GP Dr Diana Warner, who have both spent a month in prison on remand.
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after four weeks in prison under what were described as very difficult conditions (including days of solitary confinement, lack of exercise, mice, cockroaches, and no vegan food other than cold water pot noodles) the two were released. New bail and curfew conditions were imposed on all – the staggered curfew was replaced by a simple overnight curfew, with a strong warning that any breach will likely mean a return to prison.
Additionally, Hallam was ordered to wear an electronic tag.
The next case management meeting will be at the end of November, but there is no likelihood of a trial until well into next year.
If you thought pre-crime and thought crime were something from dystopian sci-fi, bear in mind that these five passionate
climate activists are on stringent bail conditions not to talk to each other, on the basis of a recording of a meeting allegedly planning non-violent actions designed to bring attention to the seriousness and lack of government action over the climate crisis
Although they are under threat of further imprisonment that they mustn’t communicate with each other or plan any activism, their actual trial has no date and will certainly not take place for many months and possibly a year or more.
At a previous trial, in defiance of the judge’s directions, the jury sided with Hallam and delivered a ‘perverse judgement’ acquitting him of the criminal damage he’d caused at King’s College London. He persuaded them that his actions, as part of a successful campaign to force the college to divest from fossil-fuels, were necessary and proportionate, given the climate and ecological emergency.