SYDNEY: Fifty climate change activists were charged with unlawful protest near Australia's biggest coal export port on Sunday (Apr 16) after protesters climbed on a coal train. New
New South Wales state police said 47 activists were charged with"rail corridor offences", two with malicious damage and one with assaulting a security guard in relation to the"unlawful protest activity" near the Port of Newcastle, about 170km from the state capital Sydney.
Climate activist group Rising Tide, which claimed responsibility for the protest, said arrests were made when people were"occupying the train". "Twenty of the group scaled the train and used shovels to unload coal from the laden wagons," it said in a statement. Police said 14 activists had climbed onto a train carriage in a railway corridor in the suburb of Sandgate.
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