Palestine Action Activists to Be Sentenced As Terrorists in Move Kept Secret From Jury and Public

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who are they supposed to have been terrorising? On whom did they inflict terror?

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  • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The shareholders?

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    • Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      hahah more or less yeah. Feels like everything is shaped around how much something terrors shareholders.

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  • rimu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the judge ruled that there appeared to be a ‘terrorist connection’ as the activists were attempting to influence the Israeli government by restricting its access to weapons.

    This is suuuch a stretch.

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    • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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• reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Eroding the legitimacy of the courts doesn’t seem like an excellent strategy right now

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What legitimacy?

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• brewery@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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)

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  • Thordros@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, most were probably actual terrorists

    doubt

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• Babalugats@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  UK media has been barred from disclosing it until now.

  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.

  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.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was. Zarah Sultana even raised the issue using parliamentary privilege a couple of weeks ago. Sadly not enough people noticed.

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  • Aria@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was. I’ve known about this for weeks, so any anglophone journalist probably has as well. They don’t want to report on it.

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    None of that happened.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      www.npr.org/…/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.

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• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• Lowleekun@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is really vindicating in a sickening way that the West does not care much about pretending to be free any longer. More and more people take a second look and realize it was only ever so free as long as you were aligned. And it not smart to be aligned with the bourgies if you are a prole.

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• Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• Andy_R@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The whole system is corrupted.

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  • Tiresia@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The system is behaving as intended, and as it always has. The suffragettes were treated just as harshly.

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• jasoman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  USA following suit soon in their own way.

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  • zeroConnection@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is more like the USA is leading the way, and the UK is parroting it.

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