LONDON: Three climate activists on Friday threw soup over two Vincent van Gogh paintings at the National Gallery in London, just hours after two others were jailed for committing the same act two years ago.

The gallery said “a soup-like substance” had been thrown over Sunflowers (1888) and Sunflowers (1889) and that three people had been arrested.

The Just Stop Oil group said it had staged the “sign of defiance” after two of its activists were jailed earlier on Friday for throwing soup at the Sunflowers (1888) painting in Oct 2022.

The attacks are the latest in a series of protests by the group, which seeks an end to the extraction and burning of oil, coal and gas, that have prompted an increasingly hard line by the authorities.

Published in Dawn, September 28th, 2024