Fears over right to protest after woman with sign at climate trial prosecuted

Trudi Warner holding up a sign outside the court in London. Photograph: Emily Pennink/PA

Civil liberty campaigners have warned that the prosecution of a woman for holding up a placard about the rights of jurors outside a court is part of the government’s increasing attacks on the right to protest.

Liberty said the decision to prosecute Trudi Warner, 68, for contempt of court for sitting outside a London trial holding up a sign was “concerning”.