Environmetal Activist Freed From Charges Due To Trauma of ‘Climate Change’
An Australian woman who blocked a central Sydney route to protest against climate change entrance has had all charges dismissed after the court was told about her climate anxiety.
Mali Cooper, 22, was charged with disrupting traffic and obstructing drivers or pedestrians for locking her neck to her car on the Sydney Harbour Tunnel during peak hour traffic in June.
She faced up to two years in prison and $22,00 in fines under the New South Wales’ new laws designed in to punish protesters who disrupt roads, public transport and infrastructure facilities.
But Magistrate Jeff Linden in Lismore Local Court on Tuesday dropped all the charges against Cooper under the Mental Health Act, section 14. The law allows a defendant with mental health or cognitive impairment to avoid a criminal record. …