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Arctic 30 activist granted amnesty
2013-12-24 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A group of 30 Greenpeace activists and journalists detained in Russia since September should be home shortly after Christmas after authorities began on Tuesday to formally process their criminal amnesties and grant them exit visas. A Greenpeace spokesman said members of the group, who were arrested aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise during a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic, were beginning to go through the administrative process clearing them of criminal charges, before being...
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Russia Grants Amnesty to Greenpeacers, Gazprom Arctic Oil Flows
2013-12-20 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The Russian parliament has formally adopted an amnesty measure that will end legal proceedings against the Greenpeace Arctic 30. The Russian lawmakers Wednesday voted for an amendment that extends a broader amnesty decree to defendants charged with hooliganism. It therefore includes the Arctic 30 -- the 28 activists and two freelance journalists who were arrested following a protest at a Gazprom-operated Arctic oil platform in the Pechora Sea on September 18. Greenpeace activist, left, puts...
Russian amnesty to benefit Pussy Riot, Greenpeace 30
2013-12-19 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Russia's parliament on Wednesday adopted an amnesty which lawyers said would free two jailed members of punk band Pussy Riot and enable 30 people arrested in a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling to avoid trial. Such an outcome would remove two of many irritants in ties with the West before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics in February. Concern over Russia's treatment of gays is already threatening to cloud the atmosphere at the Sochi Games. The State Duma, or lower house, unanimously...
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Planned Russian amnesty set to cover 'Arctic 30': Greenpeace
2013-12-18 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Thirty people arrested in Russia over a protest against Arctic oil drilling will avoid trial and the threat of jail under an amnesty set to be approved by parliament, lawyers and Greenpeace said on Wednesday. Last-minute changes to the amnesty proposed by President Vladimir Putin mean legal proceedings against the 30 are "almost certain" to end and the 26 non-Russians among them should be able to go home, the environmental group said. The arrest of the men and women whom Greenpeace call the...
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Snowden Amnesty Idea Kicked Around
2013-12-17 18:08:28| TechNewsWorld
NSA official Rick Ledgett, who has been with the agency for 25 years, suggested offering whistleblower Edward Snowden amnesty, but Gen. Keith Alexander squashed the idea. About 31,000 of the possibly 1.7 million documents Snowden stole from the agency contain information that could be helpful to enemies of the U.S., Ledgett said, and it would be worth discussing a Snowden amnesty to secure them.