Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been charged by British police after she and others were arrested at a protest outside a London hotel where an oil and gas conference was taking place.

Thunberg was on Wednesday charged with a public order offence for failing to comply with conditions that police said had been imposed to prevent “serious disruption to the community, hotel and guests”.

She has been released on bail and is due appear in court on November 15.

A total of 25 other individuals were also charged in relation to Tuesday’s protest, police added.

Thunberg became the face of young climate activists worldwide after staging weekly protests in front of the Swedish parliament in 2018.

This year, the 20-year-old has been detained by police or removed from protests in Sweden, Norway and Germany.

Video footage from Tuesday showed Thunberg, wearing a badge with the slogan ‘Oily Money Out’ standing calmly as two police officers spoke to her and still images showed her being placed in the back of a police van.

She had been protesting outside the Intercontinental Hotel in central London where the Energy Intelligence Forum was hosting a gathering of oil and gas industry leaders.

-Reuters