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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Greenpeace Activists Freed By Russia Friday Nov 22,2013

The six Britons held by the Russian state over charges relating to a Greenpeace protest have been granted bail, with five of the six released on Friday Nov 22,2013 following an International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, sitting in Hamburg.

The prisoners freedom came in exchange for a 3.6 million euro bond

The tribunal, which is backed by the United Nations, also demanded the vessel, the Arctic Sunrise, which was boarded by Russian forces in September, be immediately released

One Briton, Philip Ball from Oxford, remains in detention though he too has been granted bail

The only member of the group of 30 to be refused bail is Colin Russell, a radio engineer from Australia. 

Note
Greenpeace activists demonstrate near the Russian embassy in Paris, Friday, Sept. 27 against the ruling of a Russian court that led to the jailing of the environmental group’s activists for a protest, by Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, near an oil platform in the Arctic. On Thursday, the court in the city of Murmansk jailed 22 members of the Greenpeace team who were protesting near the platform last week. The demonstrators are holding photos of the activists who were aboard the Arctic Sunrise.
This Is What Happens To Greenpeace Activists in Russia

Greenpeace activists hold portraits of those detained on the boat Arctic Sunrise, during a rally in Moscow, Oct. 18, 2013.
 Greenpeace activists hold portraits of those detained on the boat Arctic Sunrise, during a rally in Moscow, Oct. 18, 2013.

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