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Greenpeace activists charged with piracy by Russian authorities
2013-10-02 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Russian authorities have formally charged five Greenpeace activists with piracy, with a further 25 facing similar charges. Kieron Bryan, a freelance videographer from Britain; Ana Paula Alminhana, from Brazil; Dmitri Litvinov, a Swedish-American; Sini Saarela, from Finland; and Roman Dolgov, from Russia were charged with "piracy as part of an organised group" on Wednesday morning, according to Greenpeace. They face up to 15 years in jail each if found guilty. The five were among 30 people from...
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Russia charges two Greenpeace activists w piracy
2013-10-02 09:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Russian authorities charged two Greenpeace activists with piracy on Wednesday over a protest against Arctic oil drilling at a platform owned by state-controlled energy company Gazprom, the environmental group said. The piracy charges, which Greenpeace said were absurd, are punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The two who were charged, Brazilian crew member Ana Paula Alminhana and British freelance videographer Kieron Bryan, were among 30 arrested after the protest last month in which a Greenpeace...
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Two British Greenpeace activists to appear in Russian court
2013-09-29 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Two environmental campaigners are due to appear in court in Murmansk, Russia, today after being arrested during a Greenpeace protest on an Arctic oil rig. Anthony Perrett, 32, and Frank Hewetson, 45, are among 30 people, including four other Britons, taken into custody seven days ago when armed Russian officials stormed their vessel, Arctic Sunrise. Along with other members of the group, Mr Hewetson, a father of two and logistics co-ordinator from London, and Mr Perrett, an activist from Newport,...
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Putin defends seizure of activists ship but questions piracy charges
2013-09-26 14:37:51| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Vladimir V. Putin said Wednesday that the Russian authorities were justified in seizing a Greenpeace International ship at an offshore oil platform in the Arctic last week, but he questioned whether the activities of the ships 30 crew members warranted the piracy charges that Russian authorities said they would pursue. I dont know the details of what happened there, Mr. Putin said here at an international conference on the Arctic, but obviously they are not pirates. However, formally,...
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Drill, comrade, drill: Why the Kremlin's Arctic plan worries activists
2013-09-26 12:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: The way the Kremlin sees it, the vast treasures being revealed by the retreating Arctic ice oil, gas, iron ore, mineralsare Russia's manifest destiny, with Moscow writing a new chapter in the history of the desolate, once-frozen region. It's a narrative that hasn't had much challenge in Russia. But now, after a daring raid on a drilling platform by Greenpeace, the gunpoint arrest of 30 activists, and threatened charges of piracy and terrorism, environmentalists are hoping for scrutiny of how...
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