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Demo outside Court as more Gaza protestors are sentenced

Newsdawg | 27.02.2010 10:01 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Repression

After protestors gathered outside Isleworth Crown Court, Justice Dennis who has reserved all the cases for himself handed out more sentences. According to the Jewish Chronicle [1] "one of the protesters was sentenced to 12 months in prison. One will serve ten months in a Young Offenders Institute. Another was given 12 months conditional discharge and one given an 18 month supervision order.... Police said the men threw placards and sticks and pushed and kicked police officers."

Protestors outside the court yesterday
Protestors outside the court yesterday


The sentences claimed by the Jewish Chronicle seem to be more lenient than the ones handed out on the last two Friday's and could be an indication that the growing public awareness of the issue has had en effect on the Judge. However, the only other report I could find this morning, was in the Morning Star [2], who write that "Campaigners attended court to protest at nine of the activists being sentenced. One non-Muslim was given 18 months jail for violent disorder and the other eight waiting are to be sentenced at a later date." Hopefully reports will soon be filed by some of the protestors who were at the court, so that the situation becomes clearer.

The Morning Star also reports that a "public meeting called by Stop the War, BMI and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign will take place on Tuesday at the House of Commons from 6.30pm." [3]



[1]  http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/28818/more-jailed-gaza-protest-violence
[2]  http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/87333
[3]  http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1759/1/

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  1. Link to Jewish chronicle article about the trials — poster
  2. Support — Ms Anne Thropy
  3. Gaza demo and G20 — sickened
  4. nope. — fix
  5. Its hardly institutional racism directed against Muslim/Arabic.... — @narchist
  6. @ @narchist — court attendee
  7. solidarity blog — @