I was jailed for my fracking protest. But others face much worse | Simon Roscoe Blevins
by Simon Roscoe Blevins from Environment | The Guardian on (#41390)
The injustice of my time in prison is dwarfed by the profound inequities that inspired my action in the first place
This morning I woke up outside of prison for the first time since 26 September. I was jailed for 16 months after being convicted of causing a public nuisance for a four-day protest on top of a lorry at the UK's first fracking site. On Wednesday the verdict was quashed by the court of appeal, on grounds that the sentence was, as the lord chief justice, Lord Burnett, put it, "manifestly excessive".
Many people are saying justice has been served - but we know there is still a long way to go before we get there.
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