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Greenpeace activists face piracy charges over Gazprom oil protest

2013-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Russian authorities are threatening to bring criminal charges against Greenpeace activists, including an Australian man, over piracy for scaling an oil platform in the Arctic. Special forces officers armed with guns stormed Greenpeace's ship, the Arctic Sunrise, after the protest and locked up the activists. Tasmanian Colin Russell and British-born Australian resident Alex Harris are among several dozen activists onboard the ship, which is being towed back to the port of Murmansk under armed...

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