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United Nations report greatly critical of UK’s ‘increasingly significant crackdowns’ on environmental protesters

Jennifer Hawk
United Nations report greatly critical of UK’s ‘increasingly significant crackdowns’ on environmental protesters



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A United Nations envoy stated he was “alarmed,” “distressed” and “seriously concerned” by the treatment of climate activists in the United Kingdom, in a damning report posted Tuesday that criticized “increasingly serious crackdowns” on peaceful protesters in the state.

Michel Forst, the UN’s Particular Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders,

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Major lawyers defy bar to declare they will not prosecute tranquil local climate protesters | Environmental activism

Jennifer Hawk
Major lawyers defy bar to declare they will not prosecute tranquil local climate protesters | Environmental activism

Major barristers have defied bar rules by signing a declaration stating they will not prosecute peaceful local climate protesters or act for businesses pursuing fossil fuel projects.

They are amongst a lot more than 120 mostly English attorneys who have signed a declaration vowing to “withhold [their] providers in respect

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