All Foreign Greenpeace Arctic Activists Leave Russia

[Purveyor]

Source: RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, December 29 (RIA Novosti) – All 26 non-Russian environmental activists who were detained over a September protest at an Arctic oil rig and recently pardoned by a presidential amnesty have left Russia, Greenpeace said Sunday.

Polish national Tomasz Dziemianczuk, 37, was the last Greenpeace activist who flew out of Russia Sunday, the group said in a statement. A total of 25 other foreign activists had all left by Saturday.

"I am very happy to be going home, but I don't feel the same for the ship and its future. I am emotionally connected to both the crew and the ship and for me the case will be over when the ship is back in Amsterdam," Greenpeace quoted Dziemianczuk as saying before leaving Russia.

"This was only a great beginning to our Arctic campaign," he added.

Read more: http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131229/186060015/All-Foreign-Greenpeace-Arctic-Activists-Leave-Russia.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. The amnesty became arbitrary - all cases / charges were dropped.

As such no offenses have been committed.

[Overseas]

2. K&R. Glad to hear it.

[Pterodactyl]

3. Yay