The thirty men and women detained by Russian authorities for their role in a Greenpeace stunt against an Arctic oil platform are being moved from a detention centre in Murmansk to prison in St Petersberg, Greenpeace said.
Russia downgraded the charges against Greenpeace activists from piracy to hooliganism this evening. The campaigners were facing piracy charges punishable by fifteen years in jail after a stunt on an oil rig in the Russian Arctic.
Hooliganism carries a lesser punishment, but the 30 activists and journalists being held could still face jail. Greenpeace said the reduced charges are still "wildly disproportionate" as Diplomatic Correspondent John Ray reports.
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