Greenpeace court hearings resume as New Zealand and Finnish activists plead their case

Описание: (19 Nov 2013) A Russian court granted bail to several Greenpeace protesters in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday.
The first foreign activists eligible to be released from jail while awaiting trial for participating in a demonstration outside a Russian oil rig were from Brazil and New Zealand.
The Primorsky court set bail at two million rubles (61,500 US dollars) each for Brazilian Ana Paula and David Haussmann, an Arctic Sunrise ship engineer from New Zealand.
The court said the activists would be released if the bail was paid within the next four days.
Greenpeace said it would make money available as soon as possible.
Another Greenpeace activist, Sini Saarela from Finland, also appeared in court on Tuesday.
Thirty people aboard the Arctic Sunrise Greenpeace ship were detained in Russia's Arctic in September for a protest outside a floating oil rig and have been in custody since.
The activists were initially charged with piracy, but investigators later said they were bringing hooliganism charges and that piracy would be dropped.
The Primorsky court refused to release an Australian activist on Monday, while another Saint Petersburg court granted bail to three Russians aboard the ship including prominent photographer Denis Sinyakov.
Judges in Greenpeace hearings had previously agreed with prosecutors' claims that foreign activists were a flight risk.


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