Environmental activist Nicolas Presti will serve two months in prison from Tuesday. He chose time behind bars over paying a fine.

Nicolas Presti, co-founder of the Renovate Switzerland movement, will become the first environmental activist to serve a custodial sentence in Switzerland for taking part in non-violent civil disobedience, reports Le Matin Dimanche.

He was convicted of property damage after filming two other activists pasting the IPCC report on a government building in Lausanne in 2021. …

  • MisterD
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    9 months ago

    When peaceful protests results in jail time, why bother for the peaceful protests?

    If the authorities don’t figure this out before the protesters do, there will be lots of REAL property damages.