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The most controversial Just Stop Oil protests as climate group ceases direct action

Just Stop Oil has announced it will stop direct action and hold its final protest in April

The Independent UK

The most controversial Just Stop Oil actions as climate group ceases protests

The group is know for tactics such as targeting major infrastructure, sporting events, West End productions and heritage sites.

Evening Standard

Let juries judge disruptive protesters like Just Stop Oil on their integrity – expert view

The UK Court of Appeal recently ruled on an appeal brought by 16 environmental activists serving prison sentences for planning or participating in a series of disruptive non-violent protests.

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Suffragette’s great-granddaughter attacks protest sentences ahead of appeal bids

More than a dozen climate protesters are due to seek to challenge the length of their sentences at a hearing on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Just Stop Oil appeals: Supporters protest outside High Court as prison sentences challenged

Just Stop Oil founder Roger Hallam, who is challenging his five-year prison sentence, among 16 activists appealing ‘corrupt’ sentences

Evening Standard

Just Stop Oil activists who threw soup at Van Goghs banned from London protests

Three climate activists threw canned soup at two Vincent Van Gogh paintings hours after two others were sentenced for a similar protest in 2022.

The Independent UK

Just Stop Oil activists accused of throwing soup at Van Goghs are banned from London protests

Three climate activists threw canned soup at two Vincent Van Gogh paintings hours after two others were sentenced for a similar protest in 2022.

Evening Standard

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OPINION - The National Gallery's new liquid rules make me want to kick a polar bear — well done eco-activists

A trip to the National Gallery may start to resemble a journey through Heathrow, thanks to the vandalism of environmental activists. The Gallery announced yesterday that visitors will now not be allowed to bring liquids into the building, which means taking the existing checks on bags to a new level.…

Evening Standard

Van Gogh is turning in his grave at the harsh Just Stop Oil sentence. I know, because I spoke to him

Nature was the painter’s ultimate muse, and he would have admired those seeking to protect it, says activist Nadya Tolokonnikova

The Guardian - UK

Why climate activists keep targeting art galleries – despite public outcry

Two Just Stop Oil activists were recently jailed for 27 months and 20 months respectively for throwing soup at one of Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers paintings at London’s National Gallery back in October 2022. Some commentators suggested these were overly harsh sentences for a nonviolent protest, while others felt such…

The Conversation

As the waters rise, a two-year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of British justice

Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Three Just Stop Oil activists deny ‘revenge’ soup attack on Van Gogh paintings

Stephen Simpson, 71, Mary Somerville, 77, and Phillipa Green, 24, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court

Evening Standard

Just Stop Oil protesters deny ‘revenge’ soup attack on Van Gogh paintings

Stephen Simpson, 61, Phillipa Green, 22, and Mary Somerville, 77, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court

The Independent UK

Three Just Stop Oil activists charged after soup thrown at Van Gogh paintings

Incident at London’s National Gallery came just hours after other members of group jailed over similar protest

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Just Stop Oil throw soup over Van Gogh painting after protesters jailed

ACTIVISTS from Just Stop Oil have thrown soup over two Vincent van Gogh paintings in response to two of their members being jailed for the very same…

The Independent UK

Van Gogh paintings vandalized at a London gallery after 2 activists were sentenced in similar attack

A group of activists attacked a pair of paintings by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh at London’s National Gallery by throwing what appeared to be tomato soup on the artworks

Evening Standard

Just Stop Oil activists pour soup over Van Gogh paintings in National Gallery again hours after others jailed

Just Stop Oil activists poured soup over famous Van Gogh paintings hours after others were sentenced for doing same thing

The Independent UK

Just Stop Oil target Van Gogh’s Sunflowers hours after activists jailed for throwing soup over same painting

It came just hours after Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, were jailed over the exact same protest in October 2022

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Activists receive two-year jail sentence for throwing soup on Van Gogh painting

TWO Just Stop Oil activists have been jailed for pouring soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers.

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailed

Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022

The Independent UK

Just Stop Oil protesters who threw soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting are jailed

The Just Stop Oil protestors were jailed at Southwark Crown Court

Evening Standard

Just Stop Oil eco-activists jailed for throwing soup at Van Gogh's Sunflowers

Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were condemned for the ‘criminally idiotic’ stunt at the National Gallery

Evening Standard

Soup protest at Van Gogh's Sunflowers was 'work of art', say artists

Judge told the two Just Stop Oil activists they should prepare for a prison sentence

The Guardian - UK

Artists plead for activists who threw soup on a Van Gogh to be spared jail

More than 100 artists, curators and academics said Just Stop Oil action was in keeping with ethos of the arts

Evening Standard

Heathrow Airport: At least 17 Just Stop Oil protesters arrested over disruption plans

Just Stop Oil said seven protesters were arrested at Heathrow Terminal 5, with at least 10 others arrested on public transport

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