Climate group Just Stop Oil to end active protests after final demonstration next month

By Burak Bir

LONDON (AA) - Just Stop Oil (JSO) will cease disruptive protests after a final demonstration in Parliament Square, London on April 26, the group announced on Thursday.

"Three years after bursting on the scene in a blaze of orange, at the end of April we will be hanging up the hi vis," JSO said in a statement.

The group said its initial demand to end new oil and gas is now government policy, "making us one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in recent history."

"We’ve kept over 4.4 billion barrels of oil in the ground and the courts have ruled new oil and gas licences unlawful."

The statement added: "So it is the end of soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on Stonehenge and slow marching in the streets."

However, JSO noted that it is not the" end of trials, of tagging and surveillance, of fines, probation and years in prison."

It underlined that Just Stop Oil will "continue to tell the truth" in the courts, speak out for its prisoners and call out the UK’s oppressive anti-protest laws.

The group called on people to join them for the final Just Stop Oil action in Parliament Square on April 26.