SIZO 5 Detention Centre in St. Petersburg

Aerial view of Kresty SIZO 1 detention center in St. Petersburg, where some of the Arctic 30 were held. The Arctic 30 (28 Greenpeace International activists and a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer) are currently detained by Russian authorities following a peaceful protest against oil drilling in the Arctic by Gazprom.

Unique identifier: GP0STO4P0

Type: Image

Shoot date: 23/11/2013

Locations: Eastern Europe, Russia, Saint Petersburg

Credit line: © Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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'Arctic 30' in Saint Petersburg

The 'Arctic 30' arrive in St Petersburg, and the images in this shoot show the detention centers where the Arctic 30 are detained. The 'Arctic 30' (twenty-eight Greenpeace International activists, as well as a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer), already detained in Murmansk for almost two months, face charges of piracy and hooliganism 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.

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