Climate activists win go-ahead to mount legal action against Metropolitan Police
The co-leader of the Green Party Jonathan Bartley was among more than 1,500 Extinction Rebellion activists arrested as the group continued its protests in defiance of a police ban.
Activists have been granted the go-ahead for legal action against London’s Metropolitan Police to challenge the public order banning more than two climate activists convening anywhere in the city. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
Politicians, human-rights groups and leading environmental figures including Greta Thunberg have condemned the ban as “unlawful” and “draconian”.
Meanwhile, mothers and babies from the group are blockading the of Google HQ to demand the tech giant stops funding climate deniers, as teenage protesters climb the entrance of Youtube HQ.
Other demonstrators blocked roads around Trafalgar Square, and some protested outside the offices of The Times and The Sun.
Lawyers for #ExtinctionRebellion are at the Royal Courts of Justice this morning to file a judicial review of the @metpoliceuk’s ban on their protests under section 14. Tobias Garnett of XR lawyers group speaks to the media. pic.twitter.com/Ktmlo9Qsrr
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 16, 2019
If standing up against the climate and ecological breakdown and for humanity is against the rules then the rules must be broken.#ExtinctionRebellion https://t.co/i3S9gC0fpL
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) October 15, 2019
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