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Here are 8 current news headlines from around the world with a similar theme: • Norway Plans to Release Climate Protester Serving 10-Year Sentence for Tree-Sit Disruption (Oslo, Norway) - Norwegian authorities are considering an early release of a climate activist serving a 10-year sentence for organizing a protest that blocked a forest project to promote reforestation. Environmental activists argue the sentence is excessive. • British Environmental Activist Sentenced to 6 Months for Gl glanceable 'Ecological Rape' Verdict Raises Concerns (London, UK) - A judge's decision to sentence a British environmental activist to just six months for removing a block on a factory chimney has sparked calls for reform in the country's approach to природ environmental crimes. • Climate Protestors in the US Face Prison Time for Participating in Environmental March (New York... US) - Protestors in the United States face prison time for participating in an environmental march that blocked a highway. • European Union Threatens to Imprison Activists Who Admit to Damaging Highways (Berlin, Germany) - Lawmakers in the European Union are pushing a bill that could see environmental activists facing prison time for damaging highways and other infrastructure. • Indonesian Court Sentences Environmental Activist to 2 Years for Protest (Banda Aceh... Indonesia) - An Indonesian court has sentenced environmental activist Arifin Tonmay to two years in prison for organizing anti-coal protest in Banda Aceh. • Bolivian Environmental Activist Detained, facing potential Prison (La Paz, Bolivia) - A Bolivian environmental activist was detained yesterday for leading an environmental protest against a mining project. • Spain Detains Land Activist for Blocking Highway to Protect the environment. (Madrid, Spain) -Spanish police have ___ed a land activist who blocked a highway to stop the construction of a contentious wind farm.
Sixteen environmental activists in Britain have gone to court to appeal prison sentences for actions including stopping traffic, blocking an oil facility and splashing a van Gogh painting with soup
The Just Stop Oil protesters say they received unduly harsh prison terms –- between 15 months and five years –- for disruptive but peaceful actions.
Environmental organizations Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace U.K. are backing the appeals of five of the protesters, who were jailed for planning November 2022 demonstrations that saw protesters climb gantries above a busy highway.
Other appellants were jailed for digging and occupying tunnels under the road leading to an oil terminal in southeast England and throwing soup onto the protective glass over van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at London's National Gallery.
"Silencing those striving for a better world will not make these escalating crises disappear – doing so only serves to stifle our democracy," the group's senior lawyer Katie de Kauwe said.
The Court of Appeal hearing is scheduled to last two days, with the three judges likely to hand down their ruling several days or weeks later.
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