Exclusive: Just Stop Oil activist was banned from attending gatherings, including meeting a friend in a cafe, without permission
Environmental protesters are being given licence conditions on release from jail that are supposed to be limited to extremism cases.
Ella Ward, 22, was banned from going to any meetings or gatherings, except for worship, without permission from her probation officer, although the Ministry of Justice dropped the condition after she brought a legal challenge.
In the HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) policy, the constraint falls within “specific extremism related conditions … which are restricted to those types of cases”.
The Guardian is aware of other environmental protesters who have been given the same restriction but are unable to talk about it because they were also given a separate restriction that prohibits contributing “directly or indirectly” to any website.
