Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/OSLO: Norwegian police on Wednesday briefly detained environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg during a protest demonstration in Oslo, removing her and other activists from the finance ministry.
The campaigners demanded the removal of wind turbines from reindeer pastures on Sami Indigenous land in Norway.
The campaigners, in the latest several days, have been blocking access to some government buildings, putting the centre-left minority government on tenterhooks and prompting Minister of EnergyTerje Aasland to call off an official visit to Britain.
Thunberg, holding a red, yellow, blue, and green Sami flag, was lifted and carried away by Norway police officers while hundreds of thousand demonstrators chanted slogans.
Norway supreme court
Norway’s supreme court in 2021 ruled that the two wind farms at Fosen violated Sami rights under global conventions, but the turbines remained in operation for more than 16 months later.
Thunberg and several other world campaigners seeking an end to the world’s reliance on carbon-based energy were later released along.
