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      Scientist Emma Smart is arrested during a protest against climate inaction at the U.K. government's Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy in London on April 13, 2022.

      UK Lawyers Sign 'Declaration of Conscience' Not to Prosecute Peaceful Climate Protesters

      "It's the ordinary people of this country, taking a stand against this greed and destruction that the British legal system prosecutes and imprisons, jailing them just for talking about the climate crisis and fuel poverty."

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 24, 2023

      More than 120 mostly English lawyers on Friday published a "declaration of conscience" pledging to withhold their services from "supporting new fossil fuel projects" and "action against climate protesters exercising their democratic right of peaceful protest."

      The United Kingdom has in recent years faced protests from numerous climate groups, including those with more pronounced direct actions like Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain, and Extinction Rebellion. As part of those protests, participants have filled the streets, blocked fossil fuel facilities, glued scientific papers and themselves to a government building, called out major law firms for "defending climate criminals," and even, controversially, tossed tomato soup on one of Vincent van Gogh's glass-protected paintings.

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