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UN criticises 'severe' Just Stop Oil sentences
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There was a farmers protest here during Covid, protesting environmental laws. They took their tractors onto the highways en-masse, super dangerous. They camped out outside a politician's house at night to threaten them. Burned things etc etc. Thousands of farmers involved, police didn't do anything for weeks. No arrests, no consequences.
There were arrests. And as far as I know, extinction rebellion right now are treated the same. I am unaware of any sentencing though.