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Just Stop Oil Activists Who Threw Tomato Soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Get Prison Time (www.artnews.com)

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[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago

Some climate action activists in the UK recently got 5 year sentences. I'm worried for these people because even though they knew the risks of bashing up against the UK's absurdly draconian anti-protest laws (and props to their bravery), the recent sentences were shocking and felt like another level of escalation beyond what most people were expecting.

"Ludicrous and cruel" is certainly the description for it