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Climate activists who targeted 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' sentenced to prison

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge views Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer during a visit to the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands, October 11, 2016. REUTERS/Arthur Edwards/Pool/

Two Belgian climate change activists who last week targeted the famous Johannes Vermeer painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" have been sentenced to two months in prison by the Dutch court, of which one month was suspended.

To highlight how seeing artwork destroyed evokes a similar feeling to seeing the planet destroyed, one activist glued his head to glass covering the world-famous painting at a museum in The Hague, though the artwork was not damaged, gallery staff said.

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