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Just Stop Oil vows to continue civil resistance after activists jailed for 21 years over Zoom call
The Whole Truth Five (from left to right) Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, Cressida Gethin, Louise Lancaster, Daniel Shaw and Roger Hallam

JUST STOP OIL (JSO) vowed to press on with civil resistance today after five of its activists were handed record jail sentences for nothing more than attending a Zoom call. 

Judge Christopher Hehir set a disturbing precedent on Thursday after he jailed the activists for a total of 21 years at Southwark Crown Court.

They were convicted of “conspiracy to cause a public nuisance” for co-ordinating a peaceful action on the M25 that aimed to press the government to halt new oil and gas licences.

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