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

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/

Newsdawg

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Link to Jewish chronicle article about the trials

27.02.2010 17:37

Here is the link to the Jewish chronicle article about the trials :

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/28818/more-jailed-gaza-protest-violence

poster

Support

27.02.2010 18:22

Really shocking. Any info on whether those imprisoned want support? ie - letter writing, etc.

Ms Anne Thropy

Gaza demo and G20

27.02.2010 19:32

The state is now on a fallback position to 'make an example' of protesters, after the cops were rightly criticised over the excessive force used at the G20, which only came to light after the video of Ian Thomlinson being beaten and pushed over, leading to his death at the hands of the police, who initially lied and denied all involvement.

The Gaza demo occurred before the G20 and the cowardly cops were meeting out beatings with faces masked and numerals hidden, just as they later did at G20.

Now the state is harshly punishing these protesters for the humiliation the police feel due to being found out at G20. They are currently carrying the can for the wrongdoing of the police.

RIP Ian Thomlinson

sickened

nope.

28.02.2010 02:41

@sickened.

This is clearly institutional racism directed against Muslim/Arabic people. Not police frustration/humiliation. Same thing happened after Bradford riots.

fix

Its hardly institutional racism directed against Muslim/Arabic....

28.02.2010 10:28

When at least half of those sentenced were white. Lets not get caught up in this single (Gazza/Palastine ) issue. The state is the real terrorist!

@narchist

@ @narchist

28.02.2010 10:56

Do you have any evidence that half of those jailed are white?

It flies in the face of all the evidence I have seen.

Where did all these prisoners get tried and sentenced?

court attendee

solidarity blog

28.02.2010 12:53

with info, updates etc

http://nomoreisolation.wordpress.com/