Two language campaigners were sentenced today in the first court case over Welsh language TV for 30 years. More than a hundred people came to Cardiff Magistrates' Court to show their support. Jamie Bevan was ordered to pay compensation of £1,020, costs of £120 and was placed under curfew for 28 days. Heledd Melangell Williams was ordered to pay compensation of £600 and was given a conditional discharge for 12 months.Cymdeithas yr Iaith welcomed the fact that the Magistrate declared that the British Government was not reflecting the democratic voice of the people of Wales regarding S4C and said "Protecting democracy has nothing to do with the law."The two defendants broke into Tory MP Jonathan Evans' office in north Cardiff, and painted a slogan on the wall as part of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg's campaign to protect the future of S4C.Speaking in court, Jamie Bevan, 35 from Merthyr Tudful, said*:"I broke into Jonathan Evans MP's office ... to draw attention to the unfairness and lack of respect his party is showing not only to S4C but to the Welsh nation in general. The action is part of a wider campaign to secure the future of our only Welsh language TV channel.""S4C was established after a very long campaign when thousands of people refused to pay their TV licences, and a number of people went to prison for campaigning in a similar way to us standing here today ... We paid a heavy price back then and it's totally unfair that we are now expected to pay for a second time.""At that time the Government listened to people's wishes and established S4C. A funding formula was put in law to defend us from attacks from politicians in the future. Those politicians, the Tories in London ... are so cheeky to think that they could change that law so they can make substantial cuts to the channel's budget and prepare for it's gobbling up by the BBC.""Since publishing these plans the voice of the people of Wales has been united in its opposition. ...the voice the Tories have, and still ignore is: the leaders of the main parties in Wales; tens of unions and language groups; the Welsh Affairs Select Committee; tens of thousands of people who have signed petitions, attended rallies and meetings and our religious leaders such as the Archbishop Barry Morgan. Even the House of Commons Culture Committee have severely criticised the plans.""In the face of this kind of arrogance I say to you that we had no choice but to act in way we did. To suggest that we shouldn't have taken the only step that was available to us implies that we should have sat back and done nothing, sat back and accepted the death of the station and thus the Welsh language. I tell you today, I will not sit back and do nothing."Heledd Melangell Williams, 21, from Nant Peris added*:"I don't accept the logic of the Government's savage cuts. They intend to cut the budget which S4C receives from the culture department of the government by 94% and for the BBC to fund a little of the remainder.""The greed of bankers caused this economic crisis and an easy excuse for the Tories to cut S4C's budget. Despite this, their bonus still run into billions, they caused the problem and they have the money to pay for it. We won't pay for the mistakes of the bankers by accepting these cuts. The economic crisis shows us that capitalism is not a sustainable nor just system."The language group fears that the joint plan agreed between the Westminster Government and the BBC to make the cuts leaves the channel without any certainty of any money after 2015 and threatens the channel's independence. Bethan Williams, Chair of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg commented:"Neither the government nor the BBC in London understands the situation - our channel is something irrelevant and far from view to them. They are determined to try to ignore our voice here in Wales, but through actions like Jamie Bevan's and Heledd Melangell's, and by continuing to campaign, it's more and more difficult for them not to listen.""This is a channel for everyone, an inheritance for everyone throughout Wales - people who watch the channel every day or just occasionally, for children, adults, learners and people who don't speak Welsh. The struggle was won to establish the channel decades ago and now there's a duty on us all to campaign - by writing letters, refusing to pay our TV licences or whatever we can do."