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Russia to charge Greenpeace activists with piracy over oil rig protest

2013-09-24 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Russia has opened a criminal case against Greenpeace activists who boarded an Arctic oil rig belonging to energy giant Gazprom, and says it plans to charge them all with piracy, regardless of their nationality. If convicted, they could face up to 15 years in a Russian prison. The Greenpeace boat Arctic Sunrise was apprehended last Thursday in what the environmental organisation says were international waters, near the Prirazlomnaya rig in the Pechora Sea. Russian coastguards stormed the boat after...

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