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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Matthew Taylor

More than 50 Just Stop Oil protesters in UK sent to jail on one day

Just Stop Oil campaigners blockade the Kingsbury oil terminal.
Just Stop Oil campaigners blockade the Kingsbury oil terminal near Tamworth in Staffordshire. Photograph: Jacob King/PA

More than 50 protesters who are demanding urgent action to address the climate crisis were sent to jail on one day this week after refusing to comply with court proceedings.

The campaigners, who were appearing before judges at two separate hearings in London and Birmingham, had broken an injunction to take part in a blockade of the Kingsbury oil terminal in Warwickshire on Wednesday.

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