From Africa to America, here's how climate protest is being criminalized

John Mark Rozendaal , a former music instructor at Princeton University , and Alec Connon , director of the climate nonprofit group Stop the Money Pipeline , were detained for 24 hours and charged with criminal contempt, which carries up to seven years in prison.

Mary Lawlor , the UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders, took up the pair’s case and wrote a letter to the US government explaining their fears that the charges were without foundation.