More than 1,500 climate protesters have been arrested by police in the Netherlands after blocking a major motorway in The Hague.
- During the protest, organised by Extinction Rebellion, activists walked onto the A12 highway demanding an end to fossil fuel subsidies.
- Activists blocked a section of a motorway during the afternoon in protest against Dutch fossil fuel subsidies.
- Extinction Rebellion is a decentralised, international and politically non-partisan movement using non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade governments to act justly on the Climate and Ecological Emergency.