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.
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 Petersburg, Greenpeace said.
The detainees are still being charged with piracy, and have been additionally charged with hooliganism for their stunt. In a statement, Greenpeace called for the charges against the protesters to be dropped:
"The detainees shouldn’t be in jail at all. They should be free to join their families and restart their lives.
"St Petersburg has some daylight in the winter months, unlike Murmansk. Families and consular officials will now find it easier to visit the thirty.
"But there is no guarantee that conditions inside the new detention centre will be any better than in Murmansk. In fact, they could be worse. There is no justification whatsoever to keep the Arctic 30 in any prison for a day longer. "
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