After being sentenced to a total of 25 years between them for damaging 40 Israeli military assets, the prison van carrying 4 of the Filton 25 has been blockaded by supporters outside the court for over half an hour.
Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.
Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.
A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
BREAKING: Justice Jeremy Johnson has ruled that the Filton 4 will be sentenced as terrorists – even though two juries refused to convict them of violence charges over their efforts to disable an Israeli factory in the UK making killer drones for use in Gaza. They were found guilty of a minor charge of criminal damage.
Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property. It's a very dark moment in an increasingly authoritarian Britain.
Thousands of legal professionals complained about Johnson's clear abuses of legal procedures to help the government's case for proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
Johnson has now proved this was always a show trial.
I explain how he rigged the two trials here: https://t.co/fXTkUAmIvh
Ahead of today’s first World Cup game, Bosnian legend Edin Džeko writes a letter to the children of Bosnia, reflecting on what it meant to survive war as a child and on the horrors still unfolding in the world today:
“In the end, we survived. Looking back, I’m amazed at how strong we were. We were just little kids. But there was no point to the war. All those innocent people killed, and for what?
For money. Power. Ego.
For nothing.
When there is war on the news today, I feel sick.
I don’t want to see it anywhere.
For some reason, adults never learn.” https://t.co/wPzzjylNLL
Some are going to try and compare this to the ref thing. But if the referee was facing seven charges of rape, then A) FIFA would never have picked him, and B) Nobody would have been bothered about him being denied a visa.
If our plan is to build a well rounded midfield with many traits as per game situation & opponent then I'm totally behind this vision. Think it suits modern game demands & PL + UCL + cups approach too. Hope this is the plan & once we close Mateus, we get a defensive expert. Hope.
This is what Elon Musk doesn't want you to see on this platform. This’s what your media won’t report.
Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed in real time.
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Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.
This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.
London must not host a property fair selling land in illegal Israeli settlements. The “Great Israeli Real Estate” event promotes the sale of land in occupied Palestinian territory. It is normalising annexation, displacement and ethnic cleansing.
This Event Must be Cancelled!