Monday, 30 September 2013 - 02:52
Two months for Greenpeace Dutch activists
The Dutch Greenpeace activists Faiza Oulahsen and Mannes Ubels will stay in a Russian cell for the next two months . The judge in Murmansk extended their detention.Campaign manager Oulahsen and chief engineer Ubels were arrested last week by the Russian Coast Guard along with 28 other activists. They were members of the Arctic Sunrise crew, protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic.
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Two activists chained themselves to a drilling platform of Gazprom in the Petsjora Sea, by Nova Zembla. All the crew members who appeared before the court so far, saw their detention extended to late November.