A Norwegian court has ruled that police acted unreasonably when they fined 18 activists for blocking entrances to government buildings last year, and acquitted the activists of charges of failing to pay the fines.
FILE - Young campaigners protesting wind farms block one of the entrances to The Prime Minister’s Office in Oslo , Norway, Friday, June 2, 2023. A group of 18 activists that were charged for not paying the fines they were given when they blocked several entrances to Norwegian government offices in 2023 over a wind farm that they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer, were Tuesday, April 9 2024, acquitted by an Oslo court.
In its ruling, the court concluded “that it is neither necessary nor proportionate to react with a fine in the present case here.” It noted in particular that the activists were protesting about the continued operation of the wind farm despite an earlier Supreme Court judgment that the construction of the turbines had violated the rights of the Sami, who have used the land for reindeer for centuries.
There are 151 turbines at Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, which is located in central Norway’s Fosen district, about 450 kilometers north of the capital, Oslo. The activists say a transition to green energy shouldn’t come at the expense of the rights of Indigenous people.On Feb. 27, 2023, thirteen of them occupied the entrance hall of the Norwegian Energy Ministry and on March 2 five others blocked access to the Finance Ministry.
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