Palestine Action Activists to Be Sentenced As Terrorists in Move Kept Secret From Jury and Public
https://novaramedia.com/2026/05/12/palestine-action-activists-to-be-sentenced-as-terrorists-in-move-kept-secret-from-jury-and-public/
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floofloof@lemmy.ca · 40 pts · 86d
Who are they supposed to have been terrorising? On whom did they inflict terror?
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 86d
The shareholders?
Avicenna@programming.dev · 1 pts · 85d
hahah more or less yeah. Feels like everything is shaped around how much something terrorises shareholders.
rimu@piefed.social · 16 pts · 85d
This is suuuch a stretch.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 85d
It's just not terrorism, by any normal understanding of that word. It doesn't inflict any terror on anyone, either intentionally or unintentionally, nor does it even attempt to inflict terror.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 85d
They are terrorist because they tried to restrict access to tools of terror.
Imagine vegetarians being accused of animal cruelty because they tried to convince people not to eat animals.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net · 31 pts · 86d
Eroding the legitimacy of the courts doesn’t seem like an excellent strategy right now
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 7 pts · 85d
What legitimacy?
Babalugats@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 85d
How had it not been 'leaked' to foreign media and reported on? It is nothing short of disgusting that the government can act with such impunity when they decide to do something that they are fully aware would generate harsh criticism.
Nothing that the government do or decide upon should be banned from the media, with the exception of where it may affect children in a negative way.
The whole reason that they are in their positions are because people who trusted them gave them their vote. It absolutely flies a massive "fuck you" in the face of that.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 85d
It was. Zarah Sultana even raised the issue using parliamentary privilege a couple of weeks ago. Sadly not enough people noticed.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 86d
but, didn't the courts declared that arresting them. qas groundless and illegal, and were all released after a year in jail. then they kept arresting them again?
Rule of Law my ass.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 85d
None of that happened.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 85d
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/13/nx-s1-5713346/britain-court-palestine-action-ban
The ban on Palestine action was illegal. they released over 500 protesters, some spent over a year in jail.
And now they are arresting them again for the same reason. and those who were released are facing a second trial again for the same charges.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 85d
You’re confusing two different things. The people in this article stood trial over an incident in Wilton where a building was broken into, property damaged and a police officer severely assaulted. There were two linked trials, and in February one of them resulted in a jury unable to come to a verdict on certain of the charges. The CPS elected to retry the defendants on those charges, and that’s the verdict just in.
You’re confusing that with the unlawful (not illegal) proscription of Palestine Action, which resulted in many arrests of non-violent protestors. There is an appeal pending on the status of the proscription.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 85d
sorry, it's just so hard to keep up with all that bullshit.
Armand1@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 85d
The judge, in fact the whole process was obviously biased against the defendents. How exactly is this a fair trial? The whole thing stinks to the high heavens.
brewery@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 86d
I guess we should also be thinking, how many people have been convicted since 9/11 under these secret courts. Yes, most were probably actual terrorists but it would be certain that many innocent people were convicted if you can't try them in courts designed to mitigate that (jury + beyond resolvable doubt or whatever the term is)
Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 85d
It's being done because otherwise there's no way for the government to reimprison them, which makes them look weak on terrorism after the furore they've already created about PA. They've already spent two years in prison pretrial, which counts triple towards a future prison sentence if they're found guilty. None of them can actually be put away for more than 6 years even if they're found guilty, so unless the government finds a way to increase the sentencing every single activist will walk free from court regardless of the result.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 85d
What the fuck? Starmer must have known about this, never mind about harbouring Mandelson again.
Andy_R@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 85d
The whole system is corrupted.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 85d
The system is behaving as intended, and as it always has. The suffragettes were treated just as harshly.
jasoman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 86d
USA following suit soon in their own way.
zeroConnection@programming.dev · 2 pts · 85d
It is more like the USA is leading the way, and the UK is taking an example.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 85d