The climate change activist was arrested after she refused to move from outside the hotel to the designated protest area in 2023.
Greta Thunberg, a Swedish climate activist, was tried Thursday for a public order violation related to her demonstration outside an oil and gas conference in London last year. bbc reported.
She had been protesting outside a hotel with other protesters, where the Energy Intelligence Forum was hosting officials from the oil and gas business.
She was arrested on October 17.
Thunberg rose to prominence as a global activist after organizing a protest outside the Swedish parliament in 2018.
The 21-year-old, along with four other defendants aged between 19 and 59, pleaded not guilty to a single Public Order Act charge at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Two Metropolitan Police officers reportedly gave her a final warning, but she allegedly refused to go to the authorized protest location and stated that she would “stay where she was.”
A smiling Thunberg made her way past cameras and police to the court as environmental activists chanted that “climate protest is not a crime.”
After the day's proceedings, standing outside the court with some of her co-defendants in the case, Thunberg defended climate activists facing prosecution, saying: “We must remember who the real enemy is.”
One of the world's best-known activists, Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist who gained notoriety for pressuring world leaders to act quickly to mitigate climate change.
