If They Lose, Can We Double It?

Sixteen environmental activists jailed in the past year will appear at the high court on Wednesday to ask England’s most senior judge to quash their “unduly harsh” sentences.

The verdict is expected Thursday, so I'm scheduling this for Friday, when I hope the Court of Appeal has told them where to go.... 

A host of celebrities are expected to join hundreds of protesters outside, while Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are lending their legal expertise in court to support what they describe as a “crucial legal test over the right to protest”.

No-one's taking away 'the right to protest' by charging these morons, just ensuring that the public's right to go about their lawful business is protected. 

Supporters say the appellants’ sentences, ranging from 20 months to five years for a range of nonviolent civil disobedience protests, are excessive and disproportionate, and the result of a politicised crackdown that is stifling to democratic rights.

Supporters have nicknamed the group the “Lord Walney 16”, pointing out that their long sentences all came after the crossbench peer Lord Walney, who was appointed the previous government’s adviser on political violence, published a report calling for groups such as Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion to be relabelled “extreme protest groups” and subjected to stringent restrictions like those applied to terrorist organisations.

Which the idiot we have as a Home Sec promptly ignored.  

As well as arguing that the sentences are excessive, the groups say they breach human rights legislation, which requires that sentencing must be proportionate where fundamental rights, such as the right to protest, are involved. “Locking up peaceful protesters has no place in a tolerant society,” said Katie de Kauwe, a senior lawyer at Friends of the Earth.

They weren't 'peaceful' though. They were affecting people's ability to travel, visit museums, take their children to school, and go about their lives without hinderance. Isn't that also a human right?