LATEST: Fosen campaigners refuse to meet Oil and Energy Minister Terje Aasland – only want to talk to the Prime Minister. This is confirmed by Elle Margget Nystad, head of NSR Nuorat to news. – The NSR-N is only interested in a meeting with the prime minister, and will not meet him unless the meeting is open to the press and the prime minister complies with the demands, they write in a press release on Tuesday evening. They also write that they have received several inquiries from Aasland yesterday and today where he wants “help for better processes”. The campaigners write that they “have finished hearing minister Aasland’s contentless repetitions and therefore refuse to meet with him”. – We have lost confidence in Aasland and demand that the prime minister clean up, says Nystad. Continuing the protests on Wednesday The activists have shut down the ministries for two days – mobilizing to continue the protests on Wednesday. Over 100 activists blocked the entire Ministry of Oil and Energy and several other ministries for two days. They warn that they are determined to stay and are mobilizing to continue the campaign on Wednesday morning, they write in a press release on Tuesday. CARRIED AWAY: At least nine activists have been carried away by the police today. – It is hard to see that the government would rather remove peaceful demonstrators by force than comply with our demands to stop the human rights violation at Fosen, says Elle Nystad, leader of NSR-Nuorat. – The government has not understood the seriousness of this case. We have not occupied the Ministry of Oil and Energy because we think it is fun, says Jon Anta Eira-Åhrén, deputy leader of NSR-N. – You sit and talk the same nonsense Oil and Energy Minister Terje Aasland met the protesters outside the ministry at around 11.30 am. Appeals from the protesters were then held. – I fully respect the rights of indigenous peoples and the rights of indigenous peoples, and the significance of reindeer husbandry for the Sami cultural tradition. I would like to have this dialogue with you, and that is why I have invited you (Norske Samers Riksforbund Nuorat, journ. note) to a meeting today, and a meeting on March 14, Aasland told the demonstrators. Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen hugs a fellow activist after meeting Terje Aasland for the second time. Photo: Emma Whittaker / news – Now I need to protect my fellow shareholders who are sitting here on the fifth day of the week. We are exhausted, and I can’t stand you sitting and talking the same nonsense about us, which you have been doing for 505 days, interrupted the activists’ spokesperson Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, upset. – It ends now, with just one go, she said urgently to the minister. Aasland says he went down to meet the protesters and hear how they are doing. – I respect their rights to very clearly express what their views are, says Aasland. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB – I cannot overlook the fact that I have a responsibility to deal with the case in the way the Supreme Court suggested, because the Supreme Court says that a new decision must be made in the case. We will do that, Aasland replied. It was met by new cries from the activists: “Indigenous people’s rights are not optional, the mills must be demolished now!” – Lack of grounds for removing the campaigners The removal of the Fosen activists takes place on dubious or missing grounds, writes the law firm Elden in a press release on Tuesday afternoon. Since the demonstrations started on Thursday, several activists have been forcibly removed and brought in by the police. The shareholders have received ongoing advice from lawyers outside the entrances to the ministry. The law firm Elden is assisting six of the activists demonstrating. – The campaigners have apparently been removed without the police having assessed the necessity and proportionality of the interventions, write lawyers Maria Hessen Jacobsen and Olaf Halvorsen Rønning in Elden Advokatfirma. The Ministries’ Security and Service Organization (DSS) is responsible for security in the ministries. It was they who on Sunday evening requested the police to remove 13 activists from inside the OED. – You have asked the police to remove demonstrators. Will you now take a position on the lawyers’ assessment? – We have received the law firm Elden’s letter and this will be answered later, writes Liv Nodeland, press officer at DSS, in an email to news. – Are you going to send further requests to the police to remove activists? – If demonstrators are an obstacle to the ministries being able to carry out their functions, or will pose a security risk, DSS can send several requests to remove demonstrators. Several activists removed There has been a lot of police in the area on Tuesday. While several police officers carried one protester away, a large group of activists shouted slogans in the background. – Dialogue in the form of requests and orders to remove oneself has not led five. We therefore carry the protesters away from the entrance, says operations manager Vidar Pedersen of the Oslo police. A large group of people outside the Ministry of Finance shouted slogans more or less continuously for around an hour. Photo: Emma Whittaker / news 40-50 demonstrators stood behind barricades, face to face with the police. They had Sami flags, cardigans and posters. They shouted: “Indigenous rights are not optional, the state hasn’t done a damn thing”. The police’s task leader at the scene, Brian Skotnes, said that the activists have mostly followed their orders. Apart from removing themselves from entrance areas. These are the ones that were carried away. – They have been moved and reported and can expect high fines, says task leader Brian Skotnes. Nine people have been reported for not complying with orders from the police. Here the police remove several protesters: The police have started to move the Fosen campaigners from the Ministry of Finance. Escalating the demonstrations On Monday, the campaign by Nature and Youth and the Norwegian Sami National Confederation Nuorat led to employees at six ministries being recommended to work from home. On Tuesday, they stepped up the demonstrations in the government quarter in Oslo. – We from the action group have news for you. Today we are not only closing the OED, the other ministries that share buildings, and the Ministry of Agriculture: today we are closing the state. Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen said so in a statement to the press through a megaphone at 07.30 on Tuesday morning. – Today we are not only closing the Ministry of Oil and Energy and the other ministries. Today we close the State, says Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen on behalf of the Sami campaigners. In recent days, she has spoken out on behalf of the campaigners from Nature and Youth and Norwegian Samirs Riksforbund Nuorat, who last night spent the night outside the Ministry of Oil and Energy (OED). Blocking the Ministry of Finance – This is done by today closing a new ministry, the Ministry of Finance. There is a gang blocking the entrance, said Hætta Isaksen. Several shareholders have spent the night in the government quarters. Greta Thunberg is again in place to show her support. Photo: Emma Whittaker / news The Ministry of Finance encouraged the employees, mainly those with offices in the G block, to have a home office on Tuesday. The Ministry of Finance confirms this to news. The news of a home office for the Ministry of Finance should have led to jubilation among the shareholders, according to news’s reporter on the spot. Police and security guards outside the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday morning. Photo: Emma Whittaker / news The Ministries’ Security and Service Organization (DSS) is responsible for security in the ministries. It was they who on Sunday evening requested the police to remove 13 activists from inside the OED. On Tuesday, the DSS wrote in a statement that they have asked the police to remove the protesters to open access to the Ministry of Finance. – The demonstrators have been informed about the socially critical function, and have been asked by DSS to move. They have chosen not to comply with this. Blocked escape routes would also hinder evacuation in an emergency, the report states. – Matters of equality news met two of the activists who were taken away by the police. Cornelia Reichmann and Laila Mercedes Fremme say they have no choice but to demonstrate. – That’s how it is. We have to fight a battle for legitimacy and which values are important in the country we live in. It’s about equality. There should be equality in Norway, but this case shows that it is not, as it is now, says Fremme. They find that people support them in demonstrating. – Yes, just look how many are here. It’s so obvious. We have a Supreme Court judgment that this is a violation of human rights against the Sami people. It could not have been a more obvious assault, says Reichmann. Many activists were moved when an appeal was held on Tuesday afternoon. Photo: Emma Whittaker / news – Human rights violations must stop The background for the action is that more than 500 days have passed since a judgment in the Supreme Court concluded that the wind turbines at Fosen violate the Sami’s indigenous rights. The judgment does not say that the windmills must be demolished. The campaigners have several different banners with slogans, and they shout battle cries in the government quarter. Photo: Emma Whittaker / news On Tuesday morning, Sami Parliament President Silje Karine Moutka was a guest on Nyhetsmorgen on news. – Human rights violations must stop and be repaired. It is very crucial, because it is the very heart of the matter. We cannot have such a situation, says Moutka. Impeding bus traffic The action will also have consequences for part of the bus traffic in the center of Oslo, says Ruter. – There are a lot of people in the area and there is a security assessment carried out by the police in these areas as well, says Øystein Dahl Johansen press officer in Ruter. Lines 33 and 37 have detours due to closed streets and therefore cannot stop at all stops, says Ruter.
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The Fosen campaigners will only talk to the prime minister – news Norway – Overview of news from various parts of the country
