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Activists face JCB in court over protest against firm's complicity in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes
Stop the Demolitions activists blockade the main road into JCB’s World Logistic Centre in Stoke-on-Trent in March last year
FOUR people who blockaded a JCB site over the firm’s complicity in Israeli house demolitions are facing trial on Wednesday.
The defendants, who are part of campaign group Stop the Demolitions, will appear at Newcastle-Under-Lyme Magistrates’ Court in Staffordshire at 10am.
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