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Russia charges 16 more in Greenpeace protest
2013-10-04 15:35:56| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: An additional 16 people were charged by Russia with piracy Thursday for their role in a foiled Greenpeace protest against oil drilling in the Arctic, a Russian television network reported. Among the new defendants are Greenpeace activists, crew members of the environmental organization's Arctic Sunrise icebreaker and Moscow-based freelance photographer Denis Sinyakov, Rossiya-24 reported. They join 14 others who were charged with piracy the day before. The 30 defendants, who are being held...
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Australian Greenpeace activist charged with piracy over Arctic protest
2013-10-04 04:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An Australian activist is among 30 Greenpeace crew to be charged with piracy by the Russian government after a direct action in the Pechora Sea last month. Colin Russell, a radio operator on Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship, faces a maximum 15 years in jail for taking part in the action, which Greenpeace maintains was peaceful and occurred in international waters. Russell's wife, Christine, issued a short statement to the press on behalf of herself and daughter. "Madeliene and I are extremely...
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30 Greenpeace activists charged with piracy in Russia
2013-10-03 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: All 30 of those arrested during a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling have now been charged with piracy by Russian authorities, and face trials that could see them jailed for up to 15 years. There are nationals of 18 different countries among the group, including six Britons. Investigators had already charged 14 of the activists on Wednesday, and on Thursday laid the same charges of "piracy as part of an organised group" against the remaining 16. Those charged on Thursday included the...
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Greenpeace activists are not pirates. Even Putin knows that
2013-10-03 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
John Sauven: Twenty-eight Greenpeace activists from 18 different countries, and two independent journalists, have been charged in Russia with piracy with a maximum 15 years in prison. This is despite president Putin saying last week: "Obviously, they are not pirates". But what is obvious to Putin, speaking in front of the world's press at an Arctic Forum, may become obscured within the labyrinth of the Russian legal system. Greenpeace has been taking direct action at sea for 42 years and in the Russian Arctic...
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Russia charges Greenpeace 'pirates'
2013-10-02 12:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Russia has charged five Greenpeace activists with piracy, the environmental campaign group says. Russia's Coast Guard seized the 30-strong crew of the icebreaker Arctic Sunrise on 18 September after a protest at a state-owned oil rig. Activists from Brazil, Britain, Finland and Sweden, and a British videographer were charged, the group says. Activists from 18 countries are in custody in Murmansk. If found guilty they could face up to 15 years in jail. Greenpeace named the activists charged...
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