The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise under arrest and docked in the port of Murmansk.

Captain Peter Willcox (USA) is accompanied by his lawyer (black coat & white scarf) Alexandr Mukhortov on board the Arctic Sunrise for further investigations by the Investigative Committee.

On September 18th, the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise was involved in a peaceful protest at Gazprom’s Prirazlomnaya platform, later, the Russian Coast Guard boarded the ship and seized the crew at gunpoint.
The Arctic 30 (28 Greenpeace International activists and a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer) are currently detained by Russian authorities since they were arrested during a peaceful protest against oil drilling in the Arctic. They have been refused bail and are still charged with both piracy and hooliganism.