Over 600 arrests have been made of activists from climate group Just Stop Oil in just a month, it has been revealed.
From October 30 to December 1, there were 667 arrests made of Just Stop Oil supporters attempting to disrupt the UK.
It comes as a crowd of around 80 Just Stop Oil supporters gathered at New Scotland Yard on Saturday, December 2.
The march stopped at The Supreme Court, before going on to the Crown Prosecution Service headquarters where the marchers are staging a sit-down outside the entrance.
Activists marched through London at the weekend
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The activist group said the Metropolitan Police arrested two Just Stop Oil supporters.
According to the group, at least 63 police officers and 18 police vans are accompanying the march.
One of those arrested Daniel Knorr, a biochemistry student from Oxford.
Knorr said that continuing to licence oil and gas “is nothing less than the intentional murder of hundreds of millions at a minimum.”
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Just Stop Oil said they have six supporters in prison
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Knorr said: “I feel an intense amount of responsibility at this time, I have confronted the reality of my future head on.
“This leaves me with no choice but to try and stop this from happening by any means necessary.
“The British Government is advised by some of the best scientific minds in the world, which have unequivocally told them that they have a matter of years left to avert total catastrophe.
“Continuing to licence oil and gas with this knowledge is nothing less than the intentional murder of hundreds of millions at a minimum.”
Just Stop Oil said they have six supporters in prison, six of whom have been imprisoned, without trial, for “marching in the road.”
The organisation named them as Cressie Gethin, 21, Noah Crane, 18, Ella Ward, 20, Ruby Hamill, 19, Chiara Sarti, 24, and Phoebe Plummer, 22.
Before she was imprisoned, 19-year-old Ruby Hamill said: “We are on course to lose all we know and love. Elsewhere, young people my age face torture for their peaceful resistance to a much more present threat.
“Our weird, fascist government is indifferent. Our demand is a no-brainer.”
