Judges Decide Whether Climate Activism Deserves Jail: “We Need to Put the Body Back on, but There’s Fear”

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The "current of repression" on which the UN warns comes to the Spanish courts where prosecutors demand prison sentences for acts of protest such as throwing paintThe rich countries silence their climate activists while preaching about the right to protest in the rest of the world The UN rapporteur for human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, wrote in her last report to the General Assembly: "There is a stream of repression against legitimate climate…