JUST STOP OIL WANTS UN TO DEFEND RIGHTS

Claim anti-protest law breaks convention

- PATRICK HILL

ENVIRONMENTAL activists from Just Stop Oil are calling on the United Nations to back their "'human right to protest".

The group's 22-year-old "poster girl", Phoebe Plummer, faces the first trial under the new UK Section 7 law in May.

Rules mean convicted protesters can be jailed for up to a year, fined or both for interfering with "the use or operation of key national infrastructure".

But Just Stop Oil claims the legislation is in breach of UN convention and Plummer has urged fellow activists to sign a complaint to Michel Forst, a human rights advisor to the body.