Corbyn urges court not to sentence Filton 24 activists as terrorists
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Jeremy Corbyn has spoken to The Canary urging that the Filton 24 activists, convicted of criminal damage at an Israeli-owned weapons factory, should not be sentenced as terrorists. The article criticizes the Starmer-led Labour Party for insisting on a retrial after the first jury refused to convict, and notes that the judge banned mention of the activists' motive to prevent harm to Palestinians.
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· 3 pulledYour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has told the Canary that the Filton 24 activists convicted of criminal damage must not be sentenced as terrorists.
The jury had refused at the first trial to convict them on any of the state's charges relating to damage to an Israeli-owned weapons factory, after police and security guards' claims didn't match CCTV evidence.
At the retrial, security service-linked judge Jeremy Johnson banned any mention of the fact that the activists carried out their action to prevent the slaughter of Palestinia
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