Crewmembers of Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise ship, arrested in September during an oil rig protest in the Barents Sea, will be transferred from a pre-trial detention center in Russia’s Murmansk to St. Petersburg, Greenpeace says.
The lawyer for Greenpeace Russia, Khalimat Tekeyeva, told the Interfax agency that they are not aware of the reasons for the decision to relocate the arrested activists.
All the 30 crewmembers of the Arctic Sea were arrested on September 18, after they staged a protest action at Gazprom’s Prirazlomnaya oil platform. All of them – from 18 different countries – have been placed in pre-trial detention in the city of Murmansk, northern Russia, till November 24.
Initially, the activists were held on piracy charges, which meant they could face up to 15 years in jail. However, last week Russian investigators softened the charges to hooliganism – a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 7 years.
Arctic 30 to be moved to St Pete – Greenpeace’s lawyer
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