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Sub-postmaster's wife 'cried eyes out' over jailing
2021-05-06 12:42:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A wrongly-jailed postmaster's wife has described the ordeal of seeing her husband locked up.
Jailing Heathrow 13 poses 'massive threat' peaceful protest rights
2016-02-12 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Jailing the 13 activists who last year chained themselves on Heathrows northern runway in protest at the airports expansion would represent a massive threat to the right to peaceful protest in the UK, according to John McDonnell and Caroline Lucas. In a letter to the Guardian, the shadow chancellor and Green party MP, along with the vice-president of the National Union of Students and several prominent environmentalists, warn that prison sentences for the climate campaigners would be unjust...
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Democrats seek GOP support for carbon tax bill, face questions about jailing skeptics
2015-06-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Two liberal senators appealed to conservatives yesterday to support a carbon tax, opening what they hope is a rebooted debate on climate change that focuses on legislation over science. Democratic Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Brian Schatz of Hawaii chose to introduce an ambitious bill proposing a $45 fee on carbon dioxide at the American Enterprise Institute. The location was meant to convey an offer of partnership, they said. "With this bill I extend an open hand ... to conservatives...
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