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Greenpeace Activists Face Possible Piracy Charges in Russia
2013-09-24 10:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Russia announced on Tuesday that it had opened a piracy investigation against the crew of a Greenpeace ship after its activists scaled an offshore oil platform in the Arctic last week. The step signaled that the authorities intended to act decisively to thwart more protests against Russia's ambitious plans to expand energy exploration in the region. The Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, was seized by Russian border guards in international waters in the Pechora Sea on Thursday, a day after several...
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Russian investigators say Greenpeace activists to be prosecuted
2013-09-24 10:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Environmental activists who protested at a Russian Arctic offshore oil platform last week will be prosecuted and could face piracy charges punishable by up to 15 years in prison, Russian investigators said on Tuesday. They said the "attack", in which Greenpeace activists tried scaling the Gazprom-owned Prirazlomnaya platform, Russia's first offshore Arctic oil platform, violated Russian sovereignty. "When a foreign ship full of electronic equipment intended for unknown purposes and a group...
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Greenpeace activists face piracy charges over Gazprom oil protest
2013-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Russian authorities are threatening to bring criminal charges against Greenpeace activists, including an Australian man, over piracy for scaling an oil platform in the Arctic. Special forces officers armed with guns stormed Greenpeace's ship, the Arctic Sunrise, after the protest and locked up the activists. Tasmanian Colin Russell and British-born Australian resident Alex Harris are among several dozen activists onboard the ship, which is being towed back to the port of Murmansk under armed...
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Greenpeace activists arrested on Russian oil rig
2013-09-20 23:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Greenpeace said armed Russian officers stormed its ship, which is protesting over oil exploration in the Arctic, the officers detained all its crew in a locked room. According to the environmental organisation, men armed with machine guns, had boarded the ship by lowering themselves on ropes from a helicopter. The group said it believed its Dutch-flagged ship was in international waters when the raid began.
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Greenpeace activists could be charged with terrorism after ship stormed
2013-09-20 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Jumping from helicopters and slithering down ropes, more than a dozen armed Russian coastguard workers boarded a Greenpeace ship and took custody of the activists on board, to stop them from disrupting the work of a controversial oil rig. After a scuffle between the activists and the Russian security forces, the 29 activists, including six British nationals, are apparently being held on board at gunpoint, while the ship is forcibly towed to the Arctic port of Murmansk. The Russian coastguard,...
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