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Palestine Action defendants are facing sentencing as terrorists despite being convicted of criminal damage, lifted reporting restrictions reveal.

After reporting restrictions were lifted on Tuesday, Middle East Eye is now able to report for the first time that the court will seek to add a “terrorism connection” to their charges at sentencing - a fact that was kept secret from the jury.

Reporting restrictions also barred media from revealing that the defendants had been prohibited from explaining the motivations for their involvement in the raid to jurors.

Prior to the initial trial, the judge had ruled to remove the defence of lawful excuse on the charge of criminal damage, which meant the activists could not argue that the damage they caused was legally justified to prevent greater crimes being committed by Israel’s military in Gaza.

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[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A majority of the EUs member states are monarchies and the Commonwealth nations have not distanced themselves legally or ceremonially on any meaningful way that I'm aware of in recent history

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are 6 monarchies in the EU out of 27 member states. Stop lying.

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 0 points 1 day ago

You're correct. There are 12 European monarchies but a number of the city-states are not technically EU member states. I should have said Europe rather than EU, and I was outright incorrect to say majority.

Does it change any of what I've said? Many of the most well developed countries on the planet are monarchies. The original intent of my post was to call that out