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[Grandmother] faces 10 years in jail for a fake letter ‘canceling’ an oil industry conference

Climate activist faces 10 years in jail for a fake letter 'canceling' an oil industry conference | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/16/world/activist-fake-letter-climate-new-zealand-intl/index.html

A climate activist in New Zealand faces 10 years in jail after a court found her guilty of forgery for sending a fake letter to the speakers at an oil industry conference, telling them it had been postponed due to the climate crisis.

Climate activist faces 10 years in jail for a fake letter 'canceling' an oil industry conference | CNN

3 comments

query

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Is that in the spirit of the law? I could see a fine, scaled to personal wealth. But imprisoning them, what threat did she actually pose? What were the worst possible consequences of massively profitable companies not talking for a bit?

arin

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New Zealand, you disappoint me. Looks like the judges got owned by the oil industry

mdwhite999

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To be facing 10 years she must have been charged under section 255 subsection 1 of the Crimes Act 1961. It doesn't seem from the article that her intentions met the criteria in that subsection which states "Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years who makes a false document with the intention of using it to obtain any property, privilege, service, pecuniary advantage, benefit, or valuable consideration."