
The eco-warriors were on Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, which was seized last week by the Russian Coast Guard, after members tried to climb onto an Arctic offshore drilling platform, to draw attention to the environmental risks of Arctic oil-drilling.

The oil platform, the first offshore rig in the Arctic, is owned by state-controlled gas company Gazprom. It was deployed in 2011, but its launch has been delayed by technological challenges. Gazprom had planned to start pumping oil this year, but no date's been set.

The activists hail from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, UK, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, NZ, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the US.
They can count their lucky stars they're not being questioned by the KGB - they might never have been seen again!
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