{"id":191278,"date":"2025-11-18T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=191278"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:31:57","slug":"rise-in-persecution-of-climate-defenders-in-europe-slammed-by-un-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=191278","title":{"rendered":"Rise in persecution of climate defenders in Europe slammed by UN expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate activists worldwide are facing increased persecution and criminalization by governments, with some of the most severe measures coming from Europe, according to a United Nations human rights expert. Governments including those of the U.K., France, Germany, Italy and Spain have introduced measures that criminalize protests and redefine terrorism and organized crime laws to persecute [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/short-article\/2025\/10\/rise-in-persecution-of-climate-defenders-in-europe-slammed-by-un-expert\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate activists worldwide are facing increased persecution and criminalization by governments, with some of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191278-rise-in-persecution-of-climate-defenders-in-europe-slammed-by-un-expert.jpg",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191278-rise-in-persecution-of-climate-defenders-in-europe-slammed-by-un-expert-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191278-rise-in-persecution-of-climate-defenders-in-europe-slammed-by-un-expert-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191278-rise-in-persecution-of-climate-defenders-in-europe-slammed-by-un-expert.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191278-rise-in-persecution-of-climate-defenders-in-europe-slammed-by-un-expert.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191278-rise-in-persecution-of-climate-defenders-in-europe-slammed-by-un-expert.jpg",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191278-rise-in-persecution-of-climate-defenders-in-europe-slammed-by-un-expert.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191278-rise-in-persecution-of-climate-defenders-in-europe-slammed-by-un-expert.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191278-rise-in-persecution-of-climate-defenders-in-europe-slammed-by-un-expert.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/191278-rise-in-persecution-of-climate-defenders-in-europe-slammed-by-un-expert-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}