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West End Extra - by TOM FOOT
Published: 9 November 2007
 
Prison sentence for Iraq war protester

THE first woman to be convicted under the legislation banning spontaneous protest in Parliament Square was sentenced to a week in prison this week.
Maya Evans was convicted in 2005 for reading the names of British soldiers killed in the Iraq war opposite Downing Street.
She was fined £250 but has refused to pay claiming it would be like pleading guilty.
On Tuesday she was given a prison sentence at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in Horseferry Road.
She said: “In my heart I can’t help feeling that paying the fine would be an acceptance of my “guilty” conviction.”
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