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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Kier Stalin

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

The sentences are excessive and unjustifiable, but it wasn't just one zoom call that was taken into account - three of them including Hallam were already on suspended sentences and all of them were on bail at the time of the "offence." I do not think that any of them should be imprisoned but the full details are not being given in the reporting.

Sentencing remarks [pdf] https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/R-v-Hallam-and-others.pdf

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Jesus that's a crazy sentence

[–] [email protected] 76 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not allowed evidence, not allowed a defense, and the crime was a zoom call where they tried to recruit people to block a highway. 5 years in prison.

Holy shit, are you guys okay in the UK? Blink twice if you need help.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

Blinking? Straight to jail!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

This has got to be appealable right? Thats insane!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Insurrectionists doing less time than these hippies. Y’all are crushin’ it down there…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

M25 leads me to believe this is GB not the US

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It says UK a few sentences in.

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