To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Just Stop Oil have smashed the glass protecting the Magna Carta before glueing their hands together. Footage shows Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, 85, using a hammer and chisel to break the glass which covers the historical document at the British Library. The pair glued their hands together after holding up a sign reading: ‘The government is breaking the law.
A Just Stop Oil Spokesperson said: ‘Clause 39 of the Magna Carta is one of four clauses still enshrined in UK common law, a so-called golden passage that states: “No free man is to be arrested, or imprisoned, or in any other way ruined, except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.
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