Reuters\u00a0\u2014\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
\n Four British pro-Palestinian<\/a> \n Charlotte Head, 30, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, and \n They were convicted of criminal damage at \u2060Woolwich Crown \n Prosecutors said the incident should be treated as having a \n Judge Jeremy Johnson said it was an \u201caggravating factor that \n He sentenced Corner to seven years and eight months in total \n Kamio \u200cand Head were sentenced to five years while \u2060Rajwani \n The raid took place around 10 months into Israel\u2019s \n Palestine Action was later proscribed under terrorism law, a \n Judge Johnson said that while at the time of the offence \n In impact statements given to the court, Elbit said the \n Specialist military \u200bdrone equipment, IT systems and \n The activists said they were simply motivated to destroy \n Lawyers \u2060for the jailed activists said there was no basis for \n About 100 public figures, including author Sally Rooney, \n \u201cCriminal damage has never been treated as terrorism within \n \u201cIt is completely disproportionate to punish protesters for \n Outside court, police said they had arrested over 100 people
activists<\/a> were sentenced to a total of more than 20 years over a
2024 raid on a factory operated by Israeli defence firm Elbit
which caused more than \u00a31 million of damage, with the judge<\/a>
giving longer terms after \u200bdetermining there was a \u201cterrorism
connection.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
Fatema Zainab Rajwani, 21, were members of the banned group
Palestine Action, which organised the assault on the Elbit
Systems UK facility in Bristol, southwest England, two years
ago.\n <\/p>\n
Court in May while Corner, who prosecutors said hit a police
officer with a sledgehammer, was found guilty of inflicting
grievous bodily harm. They had previously been acquitted of
aggravated burglary.\n <\/p>\n
terrorism connection and the four should be sentenced
accordingly with harsher \u2060punishments, drawing condemnation from
human rights groups and high-profile supporters.\n <\/p>\n
the offending had a terrorist connection,\u201d but added that their
previous good character was a substantial mitigating factor.\n <\/p>\n
for the two convictions, after finding he used \u201cextreme and
gratuitous\u201d force and that his autism didn\u2019t explain why he
swung the sledgehammer.\n <\/p>\n
was sentenced to four years and eight months for the criminal
damage. They will all spend another year on licence after
release.\n <\/p>\n
bombardment of Gaza in response to a deadly attack by Hamas-led
fighters in October 2023.\n <\/p>\n
decision which was ruled unlawful by London\u2019s High Court though
the group \u200bremains banned pending a government appeal, with a
ruling due on Monday.\n <\/p>\n
Palestine Action was \u200bnot a \u200cproscribed terrorist organisation,
the offences had \u200ba terrorist connection because it involved
serious damage to property and was intended to influence British
government policy toward Israel, and said it was an aggravating
factor when sentencing.\n <\/p>\n
company had received almost \u00a31.2 million from insurers to \u2060cover
the damage, while the incident had had a lasting impact on staff
safety and wellbeing.\n <\/p>\n
computers were among the items damaged in the incident.\n <\/p>\n
weapons to stop what they described \u200bas Israel\u2019s \u201cgenocide\u201d in
Gaza and disavowed violence against people.\n <\/p>\n
treating their convictions as terrorism, saying they had not
been charged with any terrorist offence.\n <\/p>\n
activist Greta Thunberg and actor Steve Coogan, have signed \u2060an
open letter \u200csaying that if the four received harsher sentences
because the offence was treated as terrorism, it would be a
miscarriage of justice.\n <\/p>\n
the UK justice system before and it \u200cis \u200cdangerous to treat them
as \u200bthe \u200bsame thing,\u201d said Kerry Moscogiuri, Amnesty International
UK\u2019s chief executive.\n <\/p>\n
criminal damage as if they were terrorists, a sentence that will
stay with them for the rest of their lives.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
for showing support for Palestine Action.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuters\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Four British pro-Palestinianactivists were sentenced to a total of more than 20 years over a2024 raid on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-489957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}