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Russian court remands last of Greenpeace Arctic oil protesters
2013-09-29 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Russian court has ordered eight remaining Greenpeace activists be held in custody for two months over a protest against Arctic offshore drilling, the environment advocacy group said on Sunday, dashing any hope some might be released quickly. Authorities detained all 30 members of the pressure group who were aboard icebreaker the Arctic Sunrise when they broke up attempts to scale state-run Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya offshore oil platform on September 18. Of those, 22 people, including a freelance...
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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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Russia: Putin compares Greenpeace with Kenya attackers
2013-09-25 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has drawn parallels with Greenpeace activists apprehended for boarding an Arctic oil rig and the attacks by jihadist group al Shabaab on a Kenyan mall that left 67 people dead. In comments on Wednesday, he said the group were "obviously" not pirates despite Russian authorities saying yesterday that they planned to charge the activists with piracy. He also defended the detention, saying coastguard officers had no way of knowing who they were. Two members...
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Putin says Greenpeace activists not pirates, but did break law
2013-09-25 11:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Greenpeace activists arrested for staging a protest at Russia's first offshore oil platform had violated international law but signaled they should not face charges of piracy. The activists' ship was seized and towed to shore on Tuesday after two tried to scale the platform to protest against Russian plans to drill for oil in the Arctic which they say pose a threat to the fragile eco-system. The 30 activists, who were onboard the ship, were due to...
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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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