Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was among thousands of campaigners arrested on 17 January during protests in Germany at the expansion of the Garzweiler open-cast coal mine.
Greta was arrested in the village of Lützerath, which had seen a violent eviction by riot police the week before. Lützerath is scheduled to be swallowed up by the expansion of the mine.
The Green party, which is part of the German government, said the activists should accept the compromise which traded Lützerath for five other villages and for bringing the end of coal use forward to 2030 rather than 2038.
Topics: Climate change & climate action