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Palestine Action activists to be sentenced as terrorists without jury’s knowledge (www.middleeasteye.net)

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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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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Half of the UK parliament is chosen by the monarch.

No.

The other half is chosen through the problematic and undemocratic first past the post voting system.

Yes.

UK streets have CCTV everywhere.

It's not the CCTV you want to worry about. The CCTV is overwritten regularly and typically goes nowhere. It's the internet-connected stuff you wanted to worry about, and the blanket surveillance by Google and meta. Carrying a smartphone and worrying about CCTV while you post pictures of yourself where LLMs can scrape them is utterly irrational.

It’s time for people to admit to themselves that the UK, especially England, is a dictatorship.

No, just a half-police state. But at least you tend not to get murdered by the police for being black in charge of a vehicle in the UK, and the healthcare is free.

This, though, this is AWFUL and they went OUT OF THEIR WAY to deny these people justice. If you deny the defendants the right to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, you have denied them justice.

[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So you're just going to pretend that the house of lords don't exist?

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

I'm not going to pretend that the monarch chooses them. The prime minister chooses them and has done for a looooooong time.