This is bullshit. Excuse me being so frank but we as humans cannot allow this kind of treatment of people who protest peacefully ON OUR BEHALF.
Here’s the headlines via the Greenpeace website:
On September 18, a small group of Greenpeace International activists approached the Gazprom Prirazlomnaya oil platform, in the Pechora Sea off the Russian coast, to engage in a peaceful protest of Arctic oil drilling. Two activists were detained and held overnight on a Russian Coast Guard vessel.
The following day, September 19, the Russian Coast Guard illegally boarded the Greenpeace International ship Arctic Sunrise while in international waters. All 30 members of the crew were held under armed guard for 5 days as the ship was towed to the port of Murmansk. Upon arrival, the activists were taken from the ship and held by authorities on land.
On September 26th, 28 of our activists, along with a photographer and videographer who were documenting the action, appeared at a preliminary court hearing in Murmansk, where most of them were remanded in custody for two months, facing investigation for possible piracy.
Get involved. You live on this planet too.
Take action: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/arctic-impacts/free-our-activists/