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UN flags ‘grave concerns’ over government's clampdown on climate protesters
Officers from the Metropolitan Police remove a Just Stop Oil protester who was detained while blocking Whitehall during a protest in central London, November 6, 2023

THE UN has flagged “grave concerns” regarding the British government’s authoritarian treatment of peaceful climate protesters and accused it of perpetuating “toxic discourse.”

UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders Michel Forst made an unprecedented intervention against “regressive” protest laws used to crackdown on campaigners.

He warned that Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain supporters are being subject to “persecution, penalisation or harassment."

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