‘A dark day for UK human rights,’ says UN adviser after Just Stop Oil activists jailed
https://news.sky.com/story/a-dark-day-for-uk-human-rights-says-un-adviser-after-just-stop-oil-activists-jailed-13189749
by topotaul
‘A dark day for UK human rights,’ says UN adviser after Just Stop Oil activists jailed
https://news.sky.com/story/a-dark-day-for-uk-human-rights-says-un-adviser-after-just-stop-oil-activists-jailed-13189749
by topotaul
31 comments
A dark day for those wanting to be a general prick and hold people’s cars hostage on a packed motorway, lol shut up.
How weird that people in the UN find it necessary to weigh in on fairly normal procedures of justice. This is surely not remotely within their remit, and also it is not a dark day for human rights to see people jailed for breaking clearly just laws.
The ones who went to prison had been to court numerous times and kept on with the same sort of actions.
Proving that the sentencing at the earlier cases was ineffective.
It would have been more of a surprise if the courts hadn’t sent them to prison.
And a bright day for people just wanting to go about their lawful business.
Oh human right. Like you might want to take into account the impact on the cancer patient being forced to miss their appointment delaying their treatment by months. Or that autistic kid stuck in a taxi with the driver, without accesss to their meds.
The judges in these cases have gone to a lot of work, going in detail about the harm and damage done by the protests, and hence why the punishments are appropriate.
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Po, didn’t they cause a massive traffic jam?
And that’s not enough to be prosecuted?
I have no sympathy.
Maybe if they didn’t sit on the roads, ruin public events etc and other malicious actions they wouldn’t be given such a bad rap.
I’m sure quite a few within just stop oil think the same, your winding the public up which will turn them against your message.
This is the sorts thing why the UN loses relavence… Protesting doesn’t give you carte blanche to do whatever. These people crossed the line.they deserve jail. The planners and controllers deserve jail. But protesting the right way is always fine.
I don’t have much to add to the conversation, except I feel the need to say that the man who sexually abused me, two of my sisters, and a slew of other prepubescent little girls in the village I lived in, including a literal **baby**, received a quarter of the sentence these protestors received.
He is now out and walking about free somewhere in Scotland.
As per, our farce of a “justice” system only really cares to pull their finger out when money is on the line.
Great news for citizens though and that’s all that counts .
And what about the rights of the 100,000+ people their actions impacted ? Do they not have the rights to live unharrassesed by these people?
Is there a potential for climate protesters to become more ‘radicalised’ in their actions? As if they are going to jail for years for civil disobedience what stopping them from escalating their actions?
Now do the same for those racist cunt bags across the country smashing up buildings, setting cars on fire and ransacking businesses.
Fuck that. If you took the banners and orange paint off them, removed the white middle class uni students and instead had young gangs in tracksuits and balaclavas up on the gantry again and again causing havoc, graffiti and damage. Walking through towns, airports and train stations spraying paint on everything and costing the country billions in lost productivity and delays the whole country would be talking about how soft we are and how they need to be punished properly.
The protests have always been ineffective too, no one talks about north sea oil licenses, they talk about the M25 being shut down again. The campaigners who actually went to court and made actual progress on North Sea drilling did so without all this bullshit.
Finally, there is a pretty decent evidence that they’re funded by oil money to discredit the movement and these Muppets keep falling for it and taking the literal fall for it.
Send them down. They brake the law and are dangerous
Interesting to see how the rioters in Southport are dealt with eh?
The comments never fail to make me feel worse about the people I share a planet with.
A man who raped a terrified young woman in a pub toilet in Scarborough has been jailed for two years and nine months.
Szczepan Malczewski, 38, from Eastfield, was sentenced today at York Crown Court after previously admitting rape and sexual assault
Of course because his crime only involved women as his victim, these JSO protestors stopped blokes from getting to the pub at opening time and high court judges getting to the Garrick Club so deserve longer prison sentences
It’s crazy to me that we as a country look at international organisations that we set up in the aftermath of the second world war and instead of taking a moment to self reflect and ask “are we going down the wrong path?”, we are lashing out and doing all sorts of mental gymnastics to justify why our violations of human rights are acceptable.
First the ECHR, now the UN.
Sad how many people in these comments don’t seem to understand the significance of this. As long as they get to work on time they don’t mind their human rights slowly being taken from them. This is how it starts in all those ‘uncivilised’ countries people think the UK is so much better than. But of course by the time it effects them directly it will be too late.
I wonder how many of the thugs that have been smashing up towns for the last few days in response to racist misinformation online will get 6 years?
There’s this weird layer of arrogance to JSO and ER that just comes through even in reporting on them.
the UK is closer to Russia politically than they’d like to admit, they just have the veneer of respectability while politicians & the public endorse the most draconian, authoritarian measures known to man. All the rosy tinted Blairites seem to forget that his curtailing of civil liberties made him immensely unpopular by the end of his term
Protestors “Do as we say”
Govt “No”
Protestors “Do as we say”
Govt “Look, we said no”
Protestors “Do as we say”
Govt “Stop it, or we’ll have you arrested”
Protestors “Do as we say”
Govt “OK, arrest them. Please behave yourselves while you are out on bail”
Protestors “Do as we say”
Govt “Don’t say you weren’t warned”
ITT: people unable to grasp that you can be angry at protestors and also angry at what they’re protesting against.
Only because the UN supports their cause, else they wouldn’t give a shit.
Can the UN stfu and focus on actual human right abuse like the literal genocide taking place rn or any of the wars in Yemen, Sudan, Nigeria, etc
UN are experts when it comes to human rights and how a country recovers itself after hardship.
Good they are dumb asses, who just wind up the public, I have zero sympathy and they have the same with the public obviously.
I have no issues with organisations/people peacefully protesting, but it should be done to disrupt the management or investors, not disrupting the general public.
If Just Stop Oil want to protest, chain themselves to oil rigs, or chain themselves to the front gates of the CEO’s of the oil companies. Stopping me from getting to work or stopping me getting my child to hospital, will not gain my support.