The jury in the case of Jersey anti-genocide activist Natalie Strecker last week was told to ignore international law, according to former Derby North MP Chris Williamson, who went to Jersey for the first two days of the three-day hearing, which closes on Monday 1 December.

Strecker, a well-known peace activist endorsed during the trial by peace prize winner Issa Amro, faces two charges of expressing support for a proscribed (banned) organisation, based on social media posts about Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.

Williamson told Skwawkbox that, in a show of the government’s eagerness to make an example of Strecker – part of Keir Starmer’s ‘lawfare’ war on activists and journalists who expose Israel’s genocide in Gaza – the government had sent one of its top barristers to guide the local prosecuting lawyer, even though Jersey has its own separate legal system.

And, explosively, that the ‘jurat’ – Jersey’s term for jurors – had been told that they must ignore international law in the case:

International law guarantees an unequivocal right of resistance, including armed resistance, to people under illegal occupation. Legal experts say that UK terrorism legislation breaches international law by blocking this right.

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By Skwawkbox

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