Colin Russell Released on Bail in St. Petersburg

Greenpeace International activist Colin Russell (from Australia) is released on bail from the SIZO 4 detention centre in St. Petersburg.
The City Court of St Petersburg granted bail to Colin on Thursday (28th November) pending the payment of 2 million ruble bail. He has now left the detention centre, but the conditions of his bail are not yet fully known. The 'Arctic 30' have been arrested by Russian authorities following a peaceful protest against oil drilling in the Arctic.

Unique identifier: GP0STO530

Type: Image

Shoot date: 29/11/2013

Locations: Europe, Russia, Saint Petersburg

Credit line: © Kirill Andreev / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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'Arctic 30' in Saint Petersburg

The 'Arctic 30' (twenty-eight Greenpeace International activists, as well as a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer) face charges of piracy and hooliganism in Russia for a peaceful protest against Arctic oil drilling in the Pechora Sea. Greenpeace International insists that piracy and hooliganism charges are unjustified, and that Russian authorities boarded the Arctic Sunrise illegally in international waters. Several international legal experts have supported that view. In this shoot images show some of the Arctic 30 being released on bail.

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'Arctic 30' Part 2 - Saint Petersburg and Release on Bail (All Photographers)

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