Concerns raised over treatment of climate protest doctor

Dr Patrick Hart. Credit: Just Stop Oil

By Daniel Pye

Concerns have been raised about the treatment of a doctor who was jailed after causing criminal damage to fuel pumps during a Just Stop Oil protest.

Michel Forst, UN special rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the Aarhus Convention, said in a post on X, that he had visited former-GP Dr Patrick Hart in prison.