A 22-year-old man has this afternoon been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, with a 6 months no parole period, for taking part in the Blockade Australia mobilization in Muloobinba/Newcastle.
He was arrested once during the first week of the mobilization, after he stopped a coal train for 5 hours by climbing on top of it.
He was then arrested under suspicion the following week on Kooragang Island, walking in the National Park. He was charged and convicted with assist in obstruction of rail locomotive and hinder mining equipment.
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