Fwd: BREAKING: More than 10 peaceful activists charged with piracy

[Olga Meerson]

Our own friend Dima Litvinov is very prominent among them. Unlike the rest,
he was born in the USSR! Please defend them all and him, especially!
Iliuxa, I have no Bridget email here. Please forward to her.

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Date: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:54 PM
Subject: BREAKING: More than 10 peaceful activists charged with piracy
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release 30 peaceful activists from detainment in Russia
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 BREAKING: More than 10 peaceful activists charged with piracy
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This is very bad news.

Thirteen Greenpeace activists and a freelance video journalist have now
been charged with piracy under Article 227 of the Russian Criminal Code.
The maximum sentence, if convicted, is 15 years in a Russian jail.

All for taking action to protect our future from catastrophic climate
change.

A further 15 activists and a Russian freelance photojournalist will appear
in front of the Russian Investigative Committee one of the following days,
we expect.

Amnesty International has demanded that the Russian authorities drop the
“absurd and damaging” piracy charges. More than 60 other NGOs have issued
statements of concern and support including Human Rights
Watch<http://links.causes.com/s/clMIAZ?r=SrOu>
, Christian Aid <http://links.causes.com/s/clMIA7?r=SrOu>, WWF
International<http://links.causes.com/s/clMIBl?r=SrOu>
, Friends of the Earth International<http://links.causes.com/s/clMIBC?r=SrOu>
, 350 <http://links.causes.com/s/clMIB3?r=SrOu>, Sierra
Club<http://links.causes.com/s/clMICp?r=SrOu>,
Reporters Without Borders <http://links.causes.com/s/clMICM?r=SrOu>,
Organization
for Security and Co-operation in
Europe<http://links.causes.com/s/clMIC6?r=SrOu>andGlobal Witness.
<http://links.causes.com/s/clMIDr?r=SrOu>

Nobel Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Council of Europe Commissioner for
Human Rights Nils Muižnieks, Russian Human Rights activist Lyudmila
Alekseyeva and numbers lawmakers and MEPs are also calling for their
release. In an interview on Ekho Moskvy Radio on Wednesday, Russian rock
legend Yuri Shevchuk dismissed the piracy charges as ridiculous.

“The whole world knows Greenpeace,” he said. “Greenpeace is the
organization that helped save the Antarctic. . . and penguins and
scientists live there happily. And what about saving whales!”

Earlier today Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo said:
“A charge of piracy is being laid against men and women whose only crime is
to be possessed of a conscience. This is an outrage and represents nothing
less than an assault on the very principle of peaceful protest. Any claim
that these activists are pirates is as absurd as it is abominable. It is
utterly irrational, it is designed to intimidate and silence us, but we
will not be cowed.”

We need you now more than ever to support the mission of peaceful
protesters around the world including the Arctic 30. Please share this news
with your friends, family and colleagues.


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