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{{Short description|1997 UK trial of the editors of Green Anarchist magazine}}
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'''GANDALF''' was an [[acronym]] (''[[Green Anarchist|'''G'''reen '''A'''narchist]]'' a'''nd''' '''''[[Animal Liberation Front|ALF]]''''') for the 1997 trial in the UK of the editors of ''Green Anarchist'' magazine, as well as two prominent British supporters of the [[Animal Liberation Front]] and [[Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group]] (ALF SG), on charges of conspiracy to incite criminal damage.

Beginning in 1995, the Hampshire police under "Operation Washington" began a series of at least 56 raids, which resulted in the August&ndash;November 1997 trial in Portsmouth of ''Green Anarchist'' editors [[Steven Booth]], Saxon Burchnall-Wood, Noel Molland, and Paul Rogers, as well as the ALF UK press officer [[Robin Webb]] and ALF SG newsletter editor Simon Russell. The defendants organized the GANDALF defence campaign. The editors of ''Green Anarchist''&mdash;Molland, Burchnall-Wood and Booth&mdash;were sentenced to three years in jail for conspiracy to incite criminal damage. After four and a half months, all three were released pending an appeal, and their convictions were later overturned.<ref>''The Journalist'', National Union of Journalists, 1997, p. 73.</ref>

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