Netherlands Taking Russia To International Court

The Netherlands has decided to take Russia to court over Greenpeace ship matter. The Dutch government is trying to release the Arctic Sunrise and its crew. The government’s representatives will go to an international maritime court, Sky News reports. The Greenpeace ship, sailing under the Dutch flag, was seized by Russian security forces in September after a protest near an arctic oil rig. The crew, including two Dutch, was arrested at gunpoint and taken to a pre-trial detention centre in Murmansk. Then they were transferred to a prison in St. Petersburg. Greenpeace'_Arctic_Sunrise
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Wikimedia commons For the immediate release of the ship and its crew, the government has applied to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. But Russia declined to take part in a hearing, and said it does not accept decisions that concern its national sovereignty. According to the tribunal's website, it has no means to enforce its decisions.