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The growth in the use of private injunctions has enabled corporations to impose crippling fines for, say, blocking certain roads or sitting down at oil terminals.

While many people are happily going along with this repression, thinking that it’s necessary to stop disruption, or that it only affects a few extremists, the direction of travel is fast and frightening and its repercussions are growing.

Not only did she spend more than 30 days in prison for protests, including holding that placard on a grass verge near an oil terminal, the 57-year-old is now facing an unprecedented development, a hearing by the General Medical Council this week to decide whether she should be struck off, or lose her licence to practise medicine, because of her criminal convictions for climate activism.

Last week, I was at a conference at the Queen Mary University of London’s School of Law where the UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders, Michel Forst, talked of his grave concern about the situation in the UK, and how such action against doctors might amount to “penalisation, persecution and harassment”.

In the eyes of hundreds of supporters, who have now mimicked her action, Warner was simply trying to uphold the right to a fair trial in response to those who are currently trying to undermine it.

And last week, new serious disruption prevention orders came into force, which threaten to escalate still further the powers of the police to track and control protesters’ movements and contacts.

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“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.