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The powerful closing speeches from the Filton 6 defendant's' closing speeches are available to read in full here. 

https://realmedia.press/filton-6-closing-speech-1/ 

Excerpts Below:

....the government doesn’t listen when people like you and me “ask nicely”. They have too much invested, both politically and financially, to act on a moral basis. We tried “asking nicely” and playing by their rules and they flat out ignored us. I don’t believe that wanting to stop human suffering, to stop tens of thousands of innocent people being killed is a fringe belief. I believe it is a commonly held view that underpins what it means to live in a just and humane society. I don’t agree that just because something is deemed incorrect by those in power at this point in history means that it is the wrong thing to do. Slavery used to be legal. The apartheid in South Africa was deemed legal. Myriad evils have been legal at one point or another – but that does not make them justified.

Charlotte Head

 

The prosecutor told you that if you didn’t convict me, the law would be incapable of providing any protection to anyone. I don’t understand how anyone could say that in the context of this case, unless they don’t see Palestinians as human beings.

Ms Leona Kamio