{"id":31427,"date":"2013-12-28T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T06:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=31427"},"modified":"2013-12-28T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T06:28:14","slug":"russia-drops-cases-greenpeace-activists-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/russia-drops-cases-greenpeace-activists-2","title":{"rendered":"Russia drops cases against Greenpeace activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/russia-drops-cases-greenpeace-activists\/dd-20\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31387\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"31387\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/russia-drops-cases-greenpeace-activists\/dd-20\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/dd12.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dd\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/dd12.jpg?fit=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/dd12.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31387 alignright\" alt=\"dd\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dd12-150x84.jpg?resize=150%2C84&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/dd12.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/dd12.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Russian authorities have dropped criminal cases against 30 Greenpeace activists from the ship Arctic Sunrise, the environmental group&#8217;s lawyer said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All activists have arrived in front of the investigative committee of St. Petersburg to be familiarised with the decision,&#8221; Xinhua quoted Andrei Suchkov as telling the Interfax news agency.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 260px;\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>By Wednesday afternoon, 16 activists had received formal resolutions closing their cases. The committee was expected to issue resolutions to the rest by the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>All non-Russian activists would then be free to leave the country, their lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>The activists were detained Sep 19 by Russian authorities after attempting to stage a protest on an Arctic oil drilling platform.<\/p>\n<p>The cases were dropped in conjunction with an amnesty granted this month to about 25,000 prisoners by the State Duma, or lower house of parliament.<br \/>\n(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian authorities have dropped criminal cases against 30 Greenpeace activists from the ship Arctic Sunrise, the environmental group&#8217;s lawyer said Wednesday. &#8220;All activists have arrived in front of the investigative committee of St. Petersburg to be familiarised with the decision,&#8221; Xinhua quoted Andrei Suchkov as telling the Interfax news agency. By Wednesday afternoon, 16 activists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[27335,26555,47765,22453,47774,47775,23371],"class_list":["post-31427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-arctic-sunrise","tag-greenpeace-activists","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news","tag-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russia drops cases against Greenpeace activists<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Russia drops cases against Greenpeace activists\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/russia-drops-cases-greenpeace-activists-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russia drops cases against Greenpeace activists\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Russia drops cases against Greenpeace activists\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/russia-drops-cases-greenpeace-activists-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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