Greenpeace activists on bail in Russia for their part in a protest against Arctic oil drilling have been barred from leaving the country until their trial, forcing them to stay in Russia over Christmas and into 2014
Greenpeace revealed today that Russia's Investigative Committee has written to one of the Arctic 30 - Anne Mie Jensen from Denmark - indicating that they are not free to leave the country.
Greenpeace said the decision was in defiance of a ruling of an international court, and repeated its demand that the 28 activists and two journalists, including six Britons, should be allowed home.
A Ruling in November 2013 by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, made up of 21 eminent judges, ordered Russia to allow the Arctic 30 to leave the country immediately and to release the Arctic Sunrise, as soon as a bond of £3 million in the form of a bank guarantee was paid.
The bond was posted by the Government of the Netherlands, where the Arctic Sunrise is registered, on November 29, so Greenpeace said Russia was now in defiance of that order
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