Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Russia drops first case against Greenpeace activists

[JURIST] Greenpeace International [advocacy website] announced on Tuesday that Russian authorities dropped criminal charges against the first of 30 people accused of taking part in a Greenpeace protest in the Arctic. The 30 jailed activists were accused of hooliganism after they staged a protest on an Arctic oil rig in September. Their release [BBC report] follows the passage of sweeping amnesty laws [414081-6, 414076-6, 414060-6, 414142-6, texts, PDF, in Russian] last week that are expected to bring the release of...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/12/Russia-drops-first-case-against-Greenpeace-activists.php

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