Crew members of the Arctic Sunrise
FACUA shows its support for Greenpeace and asks the Russian Ambassador to release the 30 detainees
The activists and journalists that participated in a peaceful protest against Gazprom's reckless plan to extract oil in the Arctic are accused of 'piracy'.
FACUA.org
Asia y Oceanía-08/10/2013
FACUA-Consumers in Action has offered its support to the environmental organisation Greenpeace, facing the imprisonment of 28 of its activists and two journalists by the Russian authorities.
The President of FACUA, Paco Sánchez Legrán, has sent a letter to the Russian Ambassador in Spain, Yuri Korchagin, to ask him for «the immediate release of all detainees, as well as the Greenpeace International ship Arctic Sunrise, and the end to oil extraction in the frozen waters of the Arctic».
The 30 detainees that participated in a peaceful protest on the 18th of September, against the reckless plans of the Russian oil company Gazprom to extract oil in the Arctic, are accused of «piracy» by the court of Murmansk (Russia)
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