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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Damien Gayle Environment correspondent

Greta Thunberg goes on trial over London oil industry protests

Photographers crowd around Greta Thunberg as she tries to enter the court
Greta Thunberg arriving at Westminster magistrates court with the other activists on trial. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

Greta Thunberg defied a police officer’s instruction to comply with an order to stop protesting outside an oil industry summit in central London last year, a court has heard.

The Swedish climate campaigner was one of five activists appearing at Westminster magistrates court on Thursday charged with “failing to comply with a condition imposed under section 14 of the Public Order Act” after they were told to leave the area.

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