Demo at the Danish Embassy on Sloane Street, Monday 15th March 2010, in solidarity with the COP15 climate prisoners.
This morning 15 climate activists protested outside the Danish Embassy, Sloane Street, West London, in solidarity with Tash and Noah, the first two protesters from the COP15 summit to go on trial. See video of the protest.
During the Copenhagen summit, over 2000 people were detained without cause. 7 will be going on trial, and the first trials are on Tuuesday 16th and Thursday 18th. All those detained durng the summit were forced to sit in the ‘herring-bone’ lines, hands tied behind their backs, and denied toilet breaks, food and water.
The protest this morning lasted about an hour, and the police kept turning up, increasing from a couple of bobbies to as many as there were protesters by the end. They asked for a liason, but the protesters just chanted ‘Drop the charges’ in their faces. The protesters began by holding a banner reading ‘Drop the Charges’ in front of the Embassy entrance, and then sat down in the street in a ‘herring-bone’ line.
While Tash and Noah are facing serious charges, something like conspiracy to cause civil unrest, they are not the first activists to be on trial for Cop15. There have already been more than seven trials, luckily most of them ending in acquittal or minor convictions with only one three month prison sentence.
All the charged deserve our solidarity!
For updates from the anti-repression group check out: http://cop15antirep.blogsport.eu/