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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Tom Wall

‘It’s sometimes right to disobey laws’: Doctor suspended for Insulate Britain protests speaks out

Dr Diana Warner, with short hair and in a dress with an art deco pattern, stands in the grass next to a bench, looking left
‘It is sometimes right to disobey laws and orders’: retired GP Dr Diana Warner pictured in Manchester on Friday. Photograph: Jon Super/the Observer

A retired GP has become the second doctor to have their medical licence suspended after being convicted of non-violent offences during peaceful climate protests.

Dr Diana Warner, who worked as a GP for 35 years in surgeries around Bristol, was imprisoned for a total of six weeks for twice breaching private anti-protest injunctions banning people from blocking traffic on the M25 in 2021 and 2022. She was also jailed for six weeks for gluing her hand to the dock during her plea hearing at a magistrates court in east London in 2022.

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