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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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