It's perhaps the first time she's actually been charged, and one of the first times using the UK's new anti-protesting laws and certainly a high profile example. So yes, it is news.
Source? The article does not say any of that.
edit: After not getting an answer for awhile, I looked it up. Greta has been arrested twice now, and detained three times.
Detained =/= charged. You can be arrested and let go without any charge. Your link doesn't mention any other charges, just that she was detained 3 times.
I don't agree with you getting downvoted though, you've raised valid questions.
It was a joke in bad taste, I'll take the downvotes, it's fine. And I was objectively wrong anyway.
She was charged both times though. The first was in Sweden, where she was given a modest fine. You can't exactly be levied a fine in court without a charge that you did something wrong first, so it's implied.
Apparently the charge was related to blocking access to the hotel, which, climate issues aside, I don't think I can say is entirely unreasonable.
Should a mob of neo-Nazis have the right to block entrance to a synagogue? Probably not, and you cannot add "unless it's for a good cause" qualifiers to laws like these. I imagine she'll pay a fine and that'll be that.
It's perhaps the first time she's actually been charged, and one of the first times using the UK's new anti-protesting laws and certainly a high profile example. So yes, it is news.
Source? The article does not say any of that.
edit: After not getting an answer for awhile, I looked it up. Greta has been arrested twice now, and detained three times.
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/why-greta-thunberg-arrested-climate-115413261.html
And charged how many times?
Twice.
Detained =/= charged. You can be arrested and let go without any charge. Your link doesn't mention any other charges, just that she was detained 3 times.
I don't agree with you getting downvoted though, you've raised valid questions.
It was a joke in bad taste, I'll take the downvotes, it's fine. And I was objectively wrong anyway.
She was charged both times though. The first was in Sweden, where she was given a modest fine. You can't exactly be levied a fine in court without a charge that you did something wrong first, so it's implied.
Apparently the charge was related to blocking access to the hotel, which, climate issues aside, I don't think I can say is entirely unreasonable.
Should a mob of neo-Nazis have the right to block entrance to a synagogue? Probably not, and you cannot add "unless it's for a good cause" qualifiers to laws like these. I imagine she'll pay a fine and that'll be that.