18-10-2018 15:47 via theguardian.com

My release from prison for protesting fracking does not equate to justice | Simon Roscoe Blevins

The injustice of my time in jail is dwarfed by the profound inequities that inspired my protest in the first placeThis morning I woke up outside of prison for the first time since 26 September. I was jailed for 16 months after being convicted of causing a public nuisance for a four-day protest on top of a lorry at the UK’s first fracking site. On Wednesday the verdict was quashed by the court of appeal, on grounds that the sentence was, as the lord chief justice, Lord Burnett, put it, &ldq
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