In Gran Bretagna nasce una nuova generazione di prigionieri politici mentre aumentano le condanne anti-protesta
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may/23/anti-protest-sentences-rise-england-wales-political-prisoners
di topotaul
In Gran Bretagna nasce una nuova generazione di prigionieri politici mentre aumentano le condanne anti-protesta
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may/23/anti-protest-sentences-rise-england-wales-political-prisoners
di topotaul
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Disorder is the natural consequence of injustice. We’re going down a dark path when we’d sooner eliminate disorder than remedy injustice
Not political prisoners, but some people attacked government facilities, and right now they try to justify vandalism (allegedly sponsored by foreign hostile actors – https://theweek.com/politics/irans-network-of-influence-in-the-uk ) under “political performance”.
So… criminals are being sentenced for committing crime?
This is essentially just an op-ed dressed up as academic research to try and give it more legitimacy. Yet another example of the soft sciences being full of politically motivated ideologues who have very little interest in producing objective scientific research.
I like how they use the euphemism of “direct action” to describe literal organised crime like the Bristol factory raid (“direct action” is basically always used as a euphemism for “crime”).
It’s entirely possible – and extremely easy – to protest without breaking the law. Your right to protest does not give you carte blanche to go around committing crimes as you see fit.
And if you do break the law then you must face the consequences just like everyone else who does so – you’re not special just because you think you’re doing so for a good cause, prisons are full of people who think that they’re in the right.
>In what they say is the first analysis of the jailing of “Britain’s new political prisoners”, the researchers identified 286 cases involving climate and Palestine-solidarity activists who were sent to prison for protest for a total amount of jail time of 136 years.
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>They highlight the “Filton 24”, who were charged with offences connected to a Palestine Action direct action protest at a factory near Bristol run by the Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.
Look, I accept that there are lots of different views on this.
But surely we can all agree that anyone that smashes a police officer’s spine isn’t a political prisoner? They have absolutely been arrested & charged for violent thuggery, not for having inconvenient political views.
New? They’ve been jailing protesters for years. The only thing that’s new is that this time it’s the guardanistas, so they’re whining instead of celebrating. The leopard would never eat my face.
If the left think they are part of some oppressive society they should learned about their beloved Iran dealt with protesters there with thousands murdered by regime when they rose up in jan/feb. Again if people want a better life for Palestinians in the holy land they should work with liberal zionists to force Israel to withdraw from the west bank and go along road of a 2 state solution rather than support any extreme view to violent end israel and expel the jews there
Improving prisons from the inside. All these new inmates suggesting design ideas for the cells, sex offenders being returned to prison society. Vegetarian menus….They are doing God’s work
It’s not illegal to protest what is happening Gaza. It’s illegal to say you support a specific group.
As to climate change arrests, well that flat out usually because it involves criminal damage, trespass or infrastructure obstruction. That is what they are being arrested for, not their cause.
the Jewish community were warning of the gaza marches calling for globalizing the intifada and other such statements being an open call to violence- we got the police bringing in special consultants saying that its not the case, and things like Jihad mean a journey of self discovery. we now see that the escalations they promised in those “pro gaza” marches are coming about with constant attacks against the jewish community in London, the last of which just last week had 5 masked men beating up a guy and yelling at him in arabic in the heart of a jewish neighborhood.
if the police can’t police these marches and the legal system punish them, including people threatening/inciting violence in accordance with existing laws, monitor dangerous individuals and such… preventing them from marching just feels safer. perhaps if they could enforce no face coverings and have their new cameras identifying the problematic individuals to try and get to the root of these problems, as well as intervening to stop the problematic actors in these protests… but that sounds like a lot of work and risk for the police which they are probably not equipped to handle.
I wonder does the sympathy people feel in this sub extend across political lines?