Greenpeace activists asked on departure visa visas

Lawyers began to submit petitions in the TFR with a request to provide foreign activists Greenpeace and crew members of Arctic Sunrise visa for departure from Russia. This was reported on the website Greenpeace Russia.

All their passports were returned to all allocated on bail. However, 26 of 17 countries do not have a corresponding visa that would allow them to leave Russia. They are still in a hotel in St. Petersburg.

“The case was unique: activists were released on bail on the territory of Russia, although their detention occurred on the open sea, outside the territorial waters of Russia. We hope that the situation will nevertheless be resolved. Greenpeace will continue to refute the charges of hooliganism and demand to stop criminal prosecution,” the Greenpeace chief legal adviser Yasper Teulings.

Separate petitions will be filed for all foreigners in the coming days. According to the law, the Investigative Committee must respond to lawyers within three days.

“After their release, the activists underwent a medical examination, contacted their families. Greenpeace is doing everything possible to be at home as soon as possible. The crew members have already paid an excessive fee for their peaceful and fair protest in dangerous oil drilling in the Arctic,” said Greenpeace Coordinator Ben Eilif.

The preventive measure in the form of a pledge does not provide for restrictions on movement. However, foreigners can leave Russia and move within the country only if there is a Russian visa.

On November 29, the radio operator of the Arctic Sunrise icebreaker Australian Colin Russell left the St. Petersburg pre -trial detention center . He was the last of the Arctic Prisoners, who was still in custody. On the eve of the City Court of St. Petersburg, he satisfied the Appeal's appeal of Russell and agreed to release him on bail of two million rubles. Representatives of Greenpeace immediately contributed the necessary money.

On November 18, the Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended Russell to arrest for three months. His case was considered the first. Later in relation to all other 29 accused, the Petersburg courts decided to secure them . Some of the collaterals were made by Greenpeace, and the corresponding diplomatic departments contributed for some foreigners.

13 Greenpeace activists, photographer Denis Sinyakov and 16 crew members of the icebreaker were detained after the Promotion of the Prirazlomnaya oil platform on September 18, when Russian border guards seized Arctic Sunrise . All of them were taken into custody during the investigation . At first, they were charged with piracy, then this accusation of Bvlo was replaced by "hooliganism".