AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch military police began forcibly removing a group of environmental protesters from the main hall of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Saturday after they refused to leave.
Hundreds of protesters had arrived for a demonstration against "the big polluter" Schiphol organised by Greenpeace, which had been granted a permit to protest outside the building only. The group rejected that condition, saying citizens' rights to peaceful protest should not be restricted.
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