Defend Our Juries Free Political Prisoners: Per week in the past I went to {photograph} an uncommon protest which took the type of an exhibition, the Free Political Prisoners Exhibition.
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The protest was organised by Defend Our Juries, a gaggle arrange following current trials through which juries have been prevented from listening to the defences of these on trial and have been directed by judges that they can not observe their consciences in coming to their verdict.
Right here is part of what was on the leaflet that they handed out throughout the exhibition. You could find extra in regards to the marketing campaign on their website online.
Why do juries want defending
Juries put the ethical sense of odd individuals into the center of the felony justice system. In recent times, juries have repeatedly acquitted these taking nonviolent direct motion to advance local weather, racial, and animal justice. These verdicts are deeply embarassing to the goverment and the arms and oil industries, business lobbyists resembling Lord Walney have promoted extraordinary measures to try to cease them.
Folks on trial have been banned from utilizing the phrases ‘local weather change’ or ‘gas poverty’ in court docket and have even been jailed only for defying that ban,
Regular authorized defences have been eliminated by seemingly biased jusges. Folks have been arrested and prosecuted for displaying the centuries-old precept of jury equite – juries can discover a particular person on trial not responsible as a matter of conscience, no matter what the decide directs.
They’d come to the Justice Ministry to protest outdoors the workplace of Legal professional Normal Richard Hermer KC to ask him to conform to Chris Packham’s and Dale Vince’s request for an open and clear public assembly to debate the measures essential to revive the elemental rights to protest and honest trial important to a functioning democracy, as known as for by the United Nations.
In addition to among the UK’s present political prisons together with these from Simply Cease Oil and Palestine Motion presently serving lengthy jail sentences for non-violent direct motion the posters within the present featured many different political prisoner from all over the world and all through historical past resembling Emmeline Pankhurst and Martin Luther King Jr “peaceable change-makers [who] must be celebrated as important to upholding democracy.”
Amongst these participating within the protest had been William Talen, higher often called the Reverend Billy, and members of his Cease Buying Choir from New York, presently on a UK tour who I used to be happy to satisfy once more having photographed him at numerous protests in London in earlier years.
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