The Finnish activist, Sini Saarela, is to be held for a further three days pending further investigation. She was arrested after a Greenpeace attempt to board a drilling platform in the Arctic.
Many of the multinational crew arrested aboard the Arctic Sunrise have been held for a further three days by the court, with some still waiting to appear before the court. The group of thirty activists includes the ship’s American captain and crew from France, New Zealand, Canada, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and Russia.
Russian authorities announced on Tuesday that the group were suspected of piracy, an offence that carries a fifteen year sentence in Russia. On Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin said that they were clearly not pirates, but they had broken international law.
