Insulate Britain campaigners sent to prison complying with motorway protests

The High Court has handed out prison sentences of as much as six months for nine Insulate Britain protestors who ignored injunctions stopping them from blockading roads.
The nine who were sentenced dealt with instant custodial sentences, in what has been seen as a strong message from the courts that likewise disruptive acts will not be tolerated.

‘A £1,000 fine for any individual illegally protesting on the road seems fair’

The campaign group responded to the jail sentences by reading out a letter on the steps of the High Court accusing the government of cowardice for selecting to “lock up pensioners rather than insulating their homes”.
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The group likewise required a lot more volunteers to join the movement, saying: “A few hundred people caught the country’s interest for months. believe what 1000 people can achieve? You have a choice. To act, to find as well as join us assist modification the tide of history, or to be a bystander as well as be complicit in enabling genocide.” 
The sentences come after the group continued its roadblock campaign in spite of fresh injunctions being taken out, with around 60 protestors disrupting web traffic in London, Birmingham as well as Manchester on Tuesday 2 November.
The most current interim injunction banned “activities that obstruct web traffic as well as stop gain access to to 4,300 miles of motorways as well as major A roads” as well as outlawed “activities which cause damage to the road surface as well as infrastructure”. The latter includes examples such as protestors gluing themselves to roads.