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Copenhagen (AFP) Nov 25, 2010 Two environmental activists were given a four-month suspended prison sentence by a Copenhagen court Thursday for inciting violence at a protest during the global climate summit last year. Danish spokeswomen for the global Climate Justice Action (CJA) network, Stine Gry Jonassen and Tannie Nyboe, were found guilty of "exhorting others to commit violence against the police" during a December 16 demonstration in Copenhagen, the court said. The verdict comes just days before a new climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, the first global gathering on the issue since the Copenhagen talks failed to achieve a binding agreement on carbon dioxide emissions to replace the Kyoto Protocol which expires in December 2012. According to the charge sheet, the two Danish CJA spokeswomen had used loudspeakers to call demonstrators to try to breach the police barriers, screaming "push, push." The thousands of protestors, under a banner "Reclaim Power-Push for Climate Justice," had attempted to barge into the Bella Centre where the UN climate meeting was being held. The two women were also found guilty of "seriously disturbing public order," as well as trespass and vandalism, according to the ruling. Nyboe told AFP that she and Jonassen were shocked by the verdict, which she called "a great defeat for democracy in Denmark." "This is a political ruling that seeks to dissuade those who want to express their opinions. It is all the more ironic in a country that claims to be at the forefront of the fight for freedom of expression," she said. Nyboe said she hoped "people will not allow themselves to be intimidated and will continue to exercise their democratic rights to criticise the political system." Jonassen meanwhile said in a statement she felt "it is absurd that a big movement like the CJA should be criminalised in this manner ... for having dared to criticise the negotiations during the climate summit." Both the two defendants and the public prosecutor said they needed time to decide whether or not to appeal the verdict.
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