The Independent reports:

{Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo] admits that the organisation was “taken by surprise” by the charges, which he thinks are “completely disproportionate”. He said that freeing his colleagues was a “top priority” but added that, as in other movements, the world needs people who are “prepared to go to prison, put their lives on the line if

necessary, in the struggle for climate justice and addressing the reality of runaway catastrophic climate change”.