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Just Stop Oil activist handed shocking six-month prison sentence for slow marching
Just Stop Oil protesters as they take part in a slow march protest through London as part of the group's campaign to convince the government to end all new oil and gas projects in the UK, April 24, 2023
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THE government’s draconian anti-protest laws have been used to give a shocking six-month prison sentence to a climate activist for taking part in a peaceful slow march. 

Just Stop Oil supporter Stephen Gingell, 57, was sentenced at Manchester magistrates’ court on Thursday. 

The father-of-three was arrested on November 13 after taking part in a slow march in north London for about half an hour.  

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