Five climate activists from the United Kingdom were given unprecedented jail sentences for a four-day, non-violent protest over climate change that blocked roadways.

The Just Stop Oil protesters, a nonviolent civil resistance group in the U.K., were each sentenced to four to five years in jail for shutting down a motorway, the Financial Times reported. The protesters were found guilty of conspiracy charges in causing a public nuisance following a multiple-day demonstration in November 2022.