Greenpeace Activists Face 15 Years in Russian Pirate Probe
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Russia is holding 30 Greenpeace activists for questioning in a piracy investigation after seizing a ship two of them used to scale an OAO Gazprom rig in the Arctic to protest the company’s plan to extract oil there.
The 30 environmental activists, who are from 19 countries including the U.S., face a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison if found guilty, Amnesty International said in a statement protesting the detentions. Everyone responsible for acts of piracy will be prosecuted regardless of nationality, Russia’s top law-enforcement body, the Investigative Committee, said in a statement on its website.