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Sini Saarela
Ecologists
1981-10-09
На свободе
Murmansk
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detained in connection with a peaceful action by Greenpeace activists who sailed on the Arctic Sunrise ship in September 2013 to the Prirazlomnaya oil production platform in the Pechora Sea to protest against the development of oil and gas fields on the Arctic shelf; the ship was forcibly stopped and all those on board were detained. Charged with piracy, the charge was later reclassified to hooliganism. She was in custody since September 2013, released on bail in November 2013. Amnestied in December 2013
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