‘Driving us to ruin’: Netherlands climate protesters fight fossil fuels - Actor Sieger Sloot was convicted for social media appeals to block a major motorway to protest against billions in subsidies f

Dutch actor and climate activist Sieger Sloot took to social media, as he typically does, to encourage people to join a protest planned in The Hague in January.

But what Sloot thought was an innocent attempt to organise a non-violent demonstration to demand action to tackle the burgeoning climate emergency led to an eight-month ordeal resulting in a sedition conviction.