Statements & Press Releases
Under-fire judge live-streams ruling in “show trial” of Filton 25 over destruction of weapons bound for Gaza genocide
London — At today's sentencing of the Filton four, Mr Justice Johnson dressed an unprecedented, politically engineered outcome in the language of proportionality, regret and judicial duty - a masterclass in rhetorical misdirection. Four activists were branded terrorists for fulfilling an obligation international law places on us all, solemn acknowledgements of their sincerity paired with sentences that ensured exactly that outcome. The performance does not change what was done in that courtroom. Their conviction last month, and the sentence handed down today, were engineered by blindsiding jurors about the state's intent to prosecute them as terrorists - after an initial trial failed to produce the convictions the state required.
