In an appeal case, two activists from Extinction Rebellion have been sentenced to pay fines of NOK 18,500 and NOK 11,800, respectively, for four protests last year. The sentence is stricter than the district court sentence.
One of the activists – a woman in her early 30s – was acquitted of one protest in August last year and convicted of another when her case was heard in the Oslo district court. There, she was fined NOK 10,000 for not complying with the police order to move.
After appealing the application of the law, the woman was sentenced for both protests when the appeal was heard in the Borgarting Court of Appeal. In both cases, the verdict concerned a breach of the Police Act’s order to follow the police’s order. The fine in the Court of Appeal amounted to NOK 11,800 after NOK 4,000 were deducted for the four days the woman was detained.
The other woman, who is in her 50s, was convicted of two protests and acquitted of a third in the district court, where she received a fine of NOK 11,000. The Court of Appeal also sentenced her for the protest for which the district court had acquitted her. Her fine was set at NOK 18,500 after a deduction of NOK 6,000 for six days in custody.
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The environment should be our No. 1 focus for united international action – not starting a war against “the Russians” – and I support Greta Thunberg and her effort to get us to make that happen, but extremism like this destroys the vital public support.
(Were the people behind this anti-environment?)