🚨 BREAKING: SOUTHWARK 8 TRIAL BEGINS TODAY ⚖️ 8 Just Stop Oil supporters charged with conspiracy to cause a public nuisance begin their 6 week trial at Southwark Crown Court. - ThreadSky

just-stopoil.bsky.social • 14 days ago

🚨 BREAKING: SOUTHWARK 8 TRIAL BEGINS TODAY

⚖️ 8 Just Stop Oil supporters charged with conspiracy to cause a public nuisance begin their 6 week trial at Southwark Crown Court.

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sithan.bsky.social•14 days ago

Let me see if I fully understand the paradoxes of English justice:
1) English law criminalizes political activity motivated by environmental issues in a country that supposedly guarantees freedom of speech, assembly and demonstration.

sithan.bsky.social•14 days ago

2) defendants cannot provide scientific evidence to justify their political actions, but the right to defense and due process of law is guaranteed in the country.

sithan.bsky.social•14 days ago

3) the confession of defendants is evidence that can be considered for sentencing, but is irrelevant for the evidentiary investigation with scientific data.

sithan.bsky.social•14 days ago

4) the law that criminalizes demonstration with suppression of constitutional rights is politicized and presupposes scientific obscurantism as a tool of public governance that cannot be publicly challenged by citizens, but English judges cannot allow science or politics to enter the courtroom.

sithan.bsky.social•14 days ago

5) the mere fact that the police make arrests and report the conditions under which they occurred should not be equivalent to an anticipation of a judicial conviction, even though the judge is obliged to assume both the lawfulness of the police activity and the unlawfulness of the citizens' actions.

sithan.bsky.social•14 days ago

Ok... I'm just an old Brazilian lawyer and the only thing I can say is that the level of bullshit in the English justice system is too high for me to understand it and not smile at it.

curlewphil.bsky.social•13 days ago

Love and strength to all of you. You are not guilty!

just-stopoil.bsky.social•14 days ago

🚔 Alexander, Christopher, James, Abigail, Karen, Daniel, Timothy and Ian were arrested in a series of house raids in November 2022, in connection with M25 gantries.

just-stopoil.bsky.social•14 days ago

⛓️ The previous conspiracy trial related to gantries ended with the Whole Truth Five receiving the longest custodial sentences ever in the UK for nonviolent protest.

💸 Support the Southwark 8 with accommodation and travel during their trial: https://chuffed.org/project/the-gantries-eight

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