News of the sentencing reached the public broadcaster here in Estonia, including Dale Vince’s comment that “this resembles Russia or maybe North Korea” and Chris Packham’s assessment that “this is a threat against freedom of speech”.

I hope the judgement gets overturned on appeal, and the law that enabled the judgement gets scrapped or rewritten.

I also suspect that the next people who want to stop traffic on a highway will not choose peaceful assembly as their method, but will use far more dangerous methods - sabotage from distance. Needless to say, state will cry “terrorism” then, and that is not a desirable outcome.