(WAN/IFEX) – Three editors of “Green Anarchist” magazine, Saxon Burchnall-Wood, Steve Booth and Noel Molland, were each sentenced to three years in jail on 14 November 1997 after being found guilty of conspiring to incite persons unknown to commit criminal damage. The charges arose from their dissemination of radical animal rights literature. Recommended Action Send […]
(WAN/IFEX) – Three editors of “Green Anarchist” magazine, Saxon
Burchnall-Wood, Steve Booth and Noel Molland, were each sentenced
to three years in jail on 14 November 1997 after being found
guilty of conspiring to incite persons unknown to commit criminal
damage. The charges arose from their dissemination of radical
animal rights literature.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to authorities:
publishing factual reports, in this case on direct action
undertaken by extreme animal rights groups
sentences handed down by the court
“fringe” press, while sometimes radical, are an integral part of
the United Kingdom media landscape and their right to freedom of
expression, which is guaranteed by Article 19 of the United
Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which the
United Kingdom is a signatory, must be respected
Saxon Burchnall-Wood, Steve Booth and Noel Molland is undertaken,
and that “conspiracy to incite” laws are not used as a means of
suppressing freedom of expression
Appeals To
Tony Blair
Prime Minister
London
United Kingdom
e-mail: tony.blair@geo2.poptel.org.ukcare of the British diplomatic representative in your country
(in Canada)
British High Commission
80 Elgin Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5K7
Tel: +1 613 237 1530
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