dissident wrote:http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131119/184798375/Greenpeace-Collects-Money-to-Bail-Activists-Jailed-in-Russia.html
The flood gates are opening. Once they are out on bail they are basically free to leave the country never to come back. Russia probably won't even bother to put them on the Interpol wanted list.
dissident wrote:Russia is correct in slapping these clowns around for trying to disrupt the work by this oil rig on a repeating basis.
If GP was so concerned about the environment it would do a global tour of oil rigs instead of fixating on this particular one.
SeaGypsy wrote:I would not be too confident of that 6- bail usually requires passport surrender. Emergency passports can be issued by Embassies, but to do so would be a serious diplomatic snub- (something the US has some justification for over the Snowden affair- but these weren't Americans).
SeaGypsy wrote:Russia has a lot of borders which may not be too difficult to cross without a passport- but the risk?- Probably straight back to the can with revocation of bail.
sparky wrote:The Russian justice system generally work OK but provincial judges are often hard boiled old Stalinist
with a dim view of rabble rousers , some would get people shot for littering
several times , for prominent cases ,the Kremlin had to lean on them toward moderation
A new generation is slowly taking over the tribunals ,but they are not the brightest ,
judges are very badly paid and the profession has little standing .
Petersburg and Moscow get the best new judges first
According to Russian media reports, the Russian migration service FMS has said that that the released foreign nationals will not be allowed to leave St Petersburg and will need to stay in Russia pending the criminal investigation (1).
Greenpeace International cannot confirm those reports until the bail conditions of all detainees are known. The non-Russians already released have had their passports returned to them and have a special registration card that will allow them to remain in Russia legally.
For now, the foreign nationals will stay at safe place in St Petersburg. There is still no clarity on when the Arctic 30 can leave Russia and finally be able to return home.
SeaGypsy wrote:With passports but without permission to leave St Petersburg. I know what I'd be doing and it would involve a boat and the Baltic.
UN-backed tribunal orders Russia to release Greenpeace protest ship and crew
22 November 2013 – The United Nations-backed International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea today ordered that Russia release the Greenpeace ship and its crew that it seized in September following a protest over oil drilling off its coast, once the Netherlands posts a bond of 3.6 million euros.
By a vote of 19 to 2, the Tribunal’s judges today ordered that, pending arbitration, Russia “shall immediately release the vessel Arctic Sunrise and all persons who have been detained, upon the posting of a bond or other financial security by the Netherlands which shall be in the amount of 3,600,000 euros…”
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46561&Cr=law+of+the+sea&Cr1=#.UpOJPsRJ6LI
Russian Prison Stuns Captain of Greenpeace’s Bombed Ship
In July 1985, agents from France’s DGSE intelligence agency planted a bomb on the Rainbow Warrior in the port of Auckland to prevent it from sailing toward a nuclear-testing site, killing a photographer on board.
“This time it was almost equally as emotional,” Willcox said.
Russia detained 30 people from 18 countries -- 28 activists and two journalists -- for participating in a protest at an OAO Gazprom offshore oil platform in September after storming the Greenpeace ship and towing it to the port of Murmansk.
“Here in international waters off Russia, we were doing what we’ve done before and expected nothing like this -- and so when we got towed into Murmansk, we were absolutely shocked that they charged us with piracy, it was something that we had never considered,” he said. The “uncertainty” of not knowing if they faced lengthy prison terms and their isolation from the outside world was the most difficult thing, he added.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-25/russian-prison-stuns-captain-of-greenpeace-s-bombed-ship.html
Synapsid wrote:Sixstrings,
What tells you that the activists have been released?
Russia repudiated the tribunal's order.
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