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Previously Unseen Photos - Russian Authorities Seize Greenpeace Ship

Posted by daphne christelis — 15 April 2015 at 5:15pm - Comments
All rights reserved. Credit: © Denis Sinyakov / Greenpeace
Frank with hands up as Russian Security Services arrest the crew at gunpoint

The plan was to attach a Greenpeace pod to Gazprom's platform and launch a peaceful protest against oil being pumped from the icy waters of the Arctic. However, heavily armed commandos flooded the deck of the Arctic Sunrise and the Arctic Thirty began their ordeal at the hands of Putin's regime.

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Greenpeace ‘Arctic 30’ activists trying to block Russian Arctic oil tanker in Rotterdam port

Last edited 1 May 2014 at 12:01pm
1 May, 2014

A group of 80 activists supported by the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior are attempting to stop Gazprom’s oil tanker Mikhail Ulyanov from delivering the first ever oil from icy Arctic waters. This is the same oil 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists were imprisoned in Russia for protesting against last year. Six were British. They are calling for a ban on offshore oil drilling in the Arctic and an urgent switch to new sources of energy.

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You can’t sink a rainbow, you can’t seize a sunrise

Posted by Alex Harris — 22 January 2014 at 3:44pm - Comments
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Alex Harris at the Greenpeace office in London

I trembled as I walked through the grounds of Murmansk prison on the 26th September.

Inmates watched me and the arrival of the other notorious 29 new prisoners through their cell windows. It was pitch black outside, but the prison was alive. Alive with the sound of barking dogs, prison alarms and prisoners shouting through their barred windows.

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The last of the Arctic 30 gets bail

Posted by Esther Freeman — 28 November 2013 at 5:48pm - Comments
Colin Russell at his detention hearing in St Petersburg
All rights reserved. Credit: Dmitri Sharomov / Greenpeace

Amazing news! This morning Colin Russell was in court in St Petersburg to appeal the decision that he should not be released on bail. Not even four minutes after we learned that his hearing had started, news came that Colin had been granted bail.

Article tagged as: arctic, Arctic30, freethearctic30, gazprom, oil, SaveTheArctic, shell

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