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Climate activist jailed for 10 months over JP Morgan protest
Four others receive suspended sentences after smashing revolving door at fossil fuel industry’s top financier
01.09.21 XR_JP Morgan_Gareth Morris-21

A CLIMATE activist was jailed for 10 months today after taking direct action at JP Morgan over the bank’s role as the fossil fuel industry’s top financier.

Five Extinction Rebellion activists were sentenced at Inner London Crown Court for smashing a glass revolving door and a large glazed panel at the bank’s European headquarters in 2021. 

Activists had also hung up posters saying “break glass in case of climate emergency.”

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