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Shell Wins Injunctions Against UK Gas Station Protesters Amid Growing Threats to Activism

Inside Climate News · By Keerti Gopal · last updated
Two activists from Just Stop Oil took on Shell’s lawyers in court and lost. The decision comes as activists face heightened legal barriers, including increasingly long prison sentences for soup-throwers, road-blockers and other protesters.

By Keerti Gopal

LONDON—Moments away from going up against a team of lawyers representing a multinational oil and gas company, Emma Ireland and Charles Philip Laurie stood in a hallway outside the courtroom with their eyes closed.