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Just Stop Oil activists sit on the racetrack at Silverstone, July 2022
ACTIVISTS from Just Stop Oil (JSO) who disrupted the 2022 British Grand Prix, lost appeals against their convictions today.
In July 2022, the five activists staged a peaceful sit-in on the Formula 1 track at Silverstone, demanding that the then-Tory government stop issuing new fossil fuel licences, a move Labour has since followed through on since taking power.
Alasdair Gibson and Louis McKechnie, both 23, David Baldwin, 49, Emily Brocklebank, 26, and 31-year-old Joshua Smith were convicted of causing a public nuisance in February last year at Northampton Crown Court.
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