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HS2 bailiffs battled for more than 14 hours today to remove an activist from a steel and concrete “lock-on” in a London protest tunnel, where opponents of the rail project have come face to face with the eviction team.
A group of at least eight protesters have spent more than a week in the tunnel network under Euston Square Gardens, resisting the construction of the line’s London leg.
Bailiffs of the private-sector National Eviction Team dug a parallel down shaft and on Thursday connected it to the activists’ tunnel, which is said to be 100 feet long.
But the team have struggled to remove the protesters after a 20-year-old, known as Lazer, locked onto the bottom of the 50-foot down shaft on Thursday night using a steel and concrete contraption around his arm.
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HS2 has the “legal right and moral obligation” to exclude a firm “involved in Israeli war crimes” from its tender process, lawyers have claimed.
Spanish manufacturer CAF is one of five bidders hoping to secure a £2.75 billion contract to supply high-speed trains to the HS2 rail project.
Palestinian rights groups have been calling on HS2 Ltd to drop CAF over its role in the Jerusalem Light Rail (JRL) expansion which links illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land to West Jerusalem.
Now a legal brief drafted by Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights and the European Legal Support Centre, which was submitted to the government today, claims that the rail project is “legally entitled” to reject CAF’s bid on the grounds of “grave professional misconduct” and breaches of international law.
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SIR KEIR STARMER is being urged to give evidence at the spycops inquiry to shed light on his potential role in miscarriages of justice cases against activists when he was head of public prosecutions.
A group of 18 environmental activists are demanding the Labour leader answer questions over whether he helped to conceal information about the role of undercover police in their and other campaigners’ wrongful convictions 10 years ago.
The activists said in a statement, published by the Guardian today, that they were seeking to “get to the truth about non-disclosure, prosecutions and miscarriages of justice that involved undercover police officers” and want Sir Keir and other figures to give evidence to achieve that.
About Those Israel Haters Who Filmed Themselves Vandalizing Elbit Factory in UK
About Those Israel Haters Who Filmed Themselves Vandalizing Elbit Factory in UK
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A group of UK Israel-haters from the groups Palestine Action and Extinction Rebellion have blocked the entrance of the Elbit Ferranti factory in Waterhead and vandalized it.
What’s more, they filmed themselves committing the crime.
#Watch | Activists from Rebellion North spraying an Elbit System arms factory with blood-red, demanding to #ShutElbitDown and #StopArmingIsrael. pic.twitter.com/nqA2PmhyRu
They were reportedly arrested, and it is, as of now, unclear if they will be charged or face any real legal consequences.