France Arrests Climate Change Deniers Under New Orwellian Powers

French authorities have arrested 24 climate change activists ahead of the UN climate change warming conference in Paris next week, citing the state of emergency powers and scrapping of the human rights convention as justification.

The interior ministry said that the measures were taken to prevent the activists from demonstrating at the COP21 conference.

About.hr reports:

Three of those concerned, who are in their late 20s, are suspected of belonging to the “radical opposition movement”, according to information obtained by AFP.

They are banned from leaving their home town in western France without special police permission, they must report to a local police station three times a day and remain at their homes between 8:00 pm and 6:00 am until December 12, the day after the talks are due to end.

The interior ministry says the three individuals have caused “serious disturbances to public order” in the past.

The activists’ lawyer, Marie Dose, said the state of emergency was being “misused” in their cases.

“This is an attack on the right to demonstrate,” she said.

In the wake of the bloody jihadist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people on November 13, the government banned all public demonstrations linked to COP21.


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