By james art 
Sixteen activists who have received a prison period between five and 15 months for their participation in four climate protests will propose to appeal the duration of their sentences to a joint hearing, which will begin on Wednesday.
Groups of ecological campaigns friends on Earth and Greenpeace UK were allowed to intervene in the case of five protesters, with the enemy claiming that the sentences were “unprecedented length -related lengths.”
The challenges will be heard at the London Court of Appeal in two days.
Adding his support to the appeal offers, the Helen Pankhurst campaign said: “Sraphones are being sought because they are fighting teeth and nails and refused to be muted and giving up their cause, the universal suffrage that is now taken for granted in all Democracy.
“Environmental activists today are in the same tradition. I have no doubt that future generations around the world will thank them for their campaigns.
“Severe and disproportionate detention sentences exported to the UK by peaceful environmental activists who speak the truth of power are worried to the extreme.
“The cancellation is the only fair result here.”
Foe and Greenpeace UK will interfere with the appeal offers of five protesters referred to by FOE as “all truth five” that were closed in July last year for consent to disrupt traffic, with protesters climbing Gantries over M25 for four consecutives for four consecutive days in November 2022
Roger Halam, co -founder of environmental campaigns, just stopping oil and the disappearance of the rebellion, was sentenced to five years in prison while Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Luccker de Abreu and Cressida Gett received four -year prisons.
Foe and Greenpeace UK have said their statements in support of the five will also “help those involved in other related appeals.”
George Symontson, Teresa Higzon, Paul Bell, Guy Delap and Paul Susek were closed for their participation in M25 protests, during which they climbed the gates above the highway.
Samontson and Higginson were closed for two years, Bell for 22 months, and Delap and Suusek for 20 months last August.
Larch Maxey, Chris Bennett, Samuel Johnson and Joe Howlet all received a prison period between three and 15 months after occupying tunnels dug under the road, leading to Navigator’s oil terminal in Thurroock, Essex.
Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were closed in September 2024 after almost “destroying” Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflowers, throwing soup on their protective glass at the London National Gallery.
Plummer was sentenced to two years behind bars and the Netherlands to 20 months.
FOE said its lawyers would claim that the sentences were “excessive” and violated human rights legislation, claiming to be a “serious threat to our democracy”.
Katie de Kaww, a senior FOE lawyer, said: “Instead of further loading our overcrowded prison system, criminalizing those who are trying to push out extraordinary climate and nature situations to increase the political program from pure despair, the government must speed up efforts to deliver fair and meaningful environmental actions.
“Increasing dissatisfaction is a purely symptom of dissatisfaction with lack of leadership and progress in one of the biggest challenges of our time.
“The silence of those who strive for a better world will not make these escalating crises disappear – it only serves to suffocate our democracy.”
Areba Hamid, the co -executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: “These long convictions for a peaceful protest make it difficult to see the modern Britain as the kind of mature, tolerant culture that our parents and grandparents enjoyed.
“We hope that the cool heads will understand that we can throw something out of great value for all of us for the revenge of inconvenience.”