Quakers in Britain (Britain Yearly Meeting) posted on January 14, 2025 “Candle-lit vigil for imprisoned Quaker climate activist. Hundreds of Quakers and supporters braved freezing temperatures to bear witness to the courage of imprisoned climate activist Gaie Delap on her 78th birthday…” Ms. Delap and others were arrested for disrupting traffic in 2022 and sentenced last year for their participation in a non-violent “Just Stop Oil” protest.
Ms. Delap was sentenced to house-arrest for 20 months but due to an ill-fitting, and thus non-functioning, electronic monitoring device. Ms. Delap was recalled to prison and has spent the past month incarcerated waiting to be refitted for a device and to be allowed to return to her home to finish out the term of her sentence. The failure of the judicial system to release her in a timely manner with a properly fitting monitor has led to additional protests. On the British website “Church Times“, Pat Ashworth, notes that “Quakers say that the case underscores fears about the effect of increasingly strict protest laws on human rights. A recent study by the University of Bristol concluded that the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest represented “authoritarian moves that are not consistent with the ideals of vibrant civil societies in liberal democracies”.
The “Just Stop Oil” website notes “In 2022 we started taking action to demand the UK Government stop licensing all new oil, gas and coal projects. We have won on this 
. Civil resistance works.” Their next goal is to have the “UK Government sign up to a Fossil Fuel Treaty to Just Stop Oil by 2030.”