Arctic Sunrise crew not planning to ask for pardon - Greenpeace
MOSCOW. Nov 22 (Interfax) - The crewmembers of the Arctic Sunrise vessel owned by Greenpeace will not ask the Russian authorities to pardon them.
"They are all convinced that they did nothing wrong," Greenpeace Russia programs director Ivan Blokov told Interfax on Friday.
Thirty crewmembers of the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise were detained by Russian border guards in the Pechora Sea on September 19 while trying to hold a protest against the oil extraction activities on the Prirazlomnaya oilrig. The environmentalists were taken to Murmansk, where the Greenpeace activists were arrested for two months. The environmentalists were transferred to detention facilities in St. Petersburg on November 12.
Courts have granted bail to 26 activists so far, 11 of them were released from pre-trail detention centers.