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A family doctor who has been jailed for peaceful climate protests has said she will carry on breaking the law.

Dr Sarah Benn, 57, became the first GP to be suspended from the medical register in August by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service for actions relating to climate activism.

But in an interview with the British Medical Journal, the Birmingham-based physician said she would not stop being an activist. 

She told the BMJ that as a doctor her mission was to promote health and save lives and that is why it was necessary to raise the alarm over global warming. 

Dr Benn was convicted after protesting against the government awarding new licences to drill oil in the North Sea. 

She held a placard outside the Kingsbury Oil Terminal in Warwickshire in breach of an injunction awarded to US Oil company Valero, which specifically prohibited protests against the production and use of fossil fuels outside the terminal. 

She spent eight days on remand in custody, and after breaching it again in September 2022 she was jailed for 32 days for contempt of court. But Dr Benn said she is ready to go to prison again.

She said: 'I will certainly be out again, doing stuff that may break the law [and] may end me up in prison again. That's not the intention, but I can't just say, "The government's got this".

'As doctors, we're supposed to protect life and health; we're supposed to advocate for patients.' 

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She added: 'The world is facing an unprecedented crisis due to the danger of climate and ecological collapse, and I believe that my actions are a justified and proportionate effort to raise an alarm about the severity and urgency of

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