18 and headed toward a Russian oil platform of the state-owned Gazprom to peacefully protest what the organization is calling the "Arctic oil rush."Ī Russian Coast Guard ship responded by launching inflatables of its own, manned with masked agents. Russian authorities also announced that they were replacing the "piracy" charge with one of "hooliganism," but they haven't officially dropped the more serious piracy charge, she said.Īccording to Greenpeace, four inflatable boats left the Arctic Sunrise on Sept. Petersburg, where conditions seem to be better, Willcox said. One positive one was that the prisoners were moved from tiny jail cells in Murmansk to a different prison in St. There have been lots of developments along the way. There, Maggy Willcox publishes a weekly newspaper called the Islesboro Island News. Willcox said she had talked to her husband twice since he was taken into custody - once, a month ago when she was in Norwalk visiting his parents, and a second time on Nov.
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