Russia bail for 29 of 30 Greenpeace detainees
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Russian judges have granted bail for 29 of the 30 people arrested following an anti-oil drilling protest by Greenpeace in Arctic waters two months ago.
Thirteen more of the Greenpeace detainees were freed from jail yesterday, and the last three crew members were granted bail. In all, 24 of the 30 have been released.
Phil Ball of the United Kingdom and Russians Dima Litvinov and Roman Dolgov were the last of the 30 crew members to be brought before the court, where they were granted bail at 2 million rubles (US$61,500).
Earlier yesterday, US ship captain and veteran Greenpeace activist Peter Willcox was released on bail.
“I feel like I’m down out of the tree but still in the forest,” Willcox told journalists. “But it’s a big step.”
All 30 still face hooliganism charges, which carry a sentence of up to seven years. They were held after some of the activists aboard the Arctic Sunrise ship tried to scale an offshore drilling platform owned by the state-owned natural gas giant Gazprom.
Greenpeace lawyers are filing an appeal for the release of Australian Colin Russell, who was denied bail on Monday.
Photographer Denis Sinyakov, who was released on Thursday, said he believed the decision to grant bail to the detainees came from the top — and Russell, who was the first to face the court, was denied bail simply because his judge hadn’t gotten the signal in time.
It remained unclear whether the foreigners, who have no Russian visas, would be allowed to leave the country.
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