During the week, environmental activist Greta Thunberg participated in protests in central Oslo. Earlier this year, she was taken away by Norwegian police after blocking the entrance to a ministry building.
“We do not benefit from foreign professional protesters being allowed to return to Norway, if they have previously committed illegal acts,” said the Progress Party’s immigration policy spokesperson Erlend Wiborg in connection with the actions.
Greta Thunberg’s Norwegian lawyers are now responding to Frp’s proposal.
“Deporting Fosen protesters on the grounds of civil disobedience would be serious and illegal,” said Thunberg’s lawyers Olaf Halvorsen Rønning and Maria Hessen Jacobsen in a press release.
As Greta Thunberg is an EU citizen, the lawyers point out that she must pose a “serious threat” to basic societal values in order to be deported.
“On the contrary, the Norwegian values of democracy and freedom of speech are something that the majority value highly,” they say.
The demonstrations in Oslo are about an illegal wind farm that threatens the Sami’s rights and land use. The activists demand that the wind turbines be demolished.