The first of the Arctic thirty left Russia

The first of Greenpeace amnesty activists left Russia, according to the organization’s twitter. He was Sweden citizen Dmitry Litvinov, son of human rights activist Pavel Litvinov. Visas have already received 11 foreigners out of 26, Greenpeace reported on Thursday evening.

On Thursday, the last of the Arctic thirty, the Italian activist Christian d'Alalesandro received a decision to terminate the criminal case against him under an amnesty. Greenpeace expects foreign activists to receive transit visas in the next couple of days. Then within three days they will have to leave Russia. Tickets for them have already been booked, said Greenpeace lawyer Mikhail Craindlin.

Craindlene emphasized that, despite the amnesty, Greenpeace continues to believe that the arrest and holding of detention of activists and the ship was illegal. Although all the defendants agreed to terminate the affairs , they did not admit their guilt.

On December 13, it became known that the TFR did not allow the visa to give a visa to one of the foreigners accused in the Arctic Sunrise case and released on bail. Which of them was refused was not specified. Earlier, lawyers submitted to the Investigative Committee to resolve their petitions to leave Russia. The FMS declared readiness to give activists a visa in the absence of objections from the investigative department.

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. Meanwhile, visas in their passports were not affixed, and all activists remained in a hotel in St. Petersburg.

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 charges were replaced by "hooliganism". In November, activists contained in the pre -trial detention center of Murmansk were transferred to St. Petersburg. There, the court freed each of them secured by 2 million rubles.