Climate Activists Plead Not Guilty After Throwing Soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

(L) Two protesters who have thrown tinned soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London on Oct. 14, 2022. (Just Stop Oil/PA Media) R: A Just Stop Oil protester is led away by police after spray painting a sign outside New Scotland Yard in London on Oct. 14, 2022. Stefan Rousseau/PA Media

Two female climate activists who threw soup on one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings pleaded not guilty to criminal damage charges on Saturday.

A third female climate activist also pleaded not guilty at a separate hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.