Locked up: Protestors in prison

Earlier this year, openDemocracy explored how successive governments had cracked down on protest rights. Now, with Just Stop Oil activists facing lengthy sentences for “conspiring” to commit protest offences, the impact of these laws is being felt more than ever.

 

We sat down with human rights lawyer Katy Watts to discuss the sentencing, and how she and the NGO Liberty won a legal challenge against the government’s new protest laws.