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Εμφάνιση αναρτήσεων με ετικέτα detention. Εμφάνιση όλων των αναρτήσεων

Τετάρτη 7 Δεκεμβρίου 2016

Σάββατο 23 Νοεμβρίου 2013

Russia to Ignore international Ruling on Greenpeace Ship. – Kremlin, Sergei Ivanov



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ST. PETERSBURG, November 23 (RIA Novosti) – Russia would not comply with the ruling of an international court that ordered it to release a Greenpeace ship it seized in September with all crew, a Kremlin official said Saturday.
“We won’t [react]. We have no plans to participate in this process,” Sergei Ivanov, who heads the Kremlin administration, told journalists in St. Petersburg.
The International Tribunal on the Law for the Sea in Hamburg ruled on Friday that Russia must release the Arctic Sunrise icebreaker and all 30 people on board on bond of 3.6 million euro ($4.8 million).
The release is a provisional measure: The maritime court still has to rule on the legality of Russia seizing the vessel.

Russia said earlier it does not accept the court’s authority in the case because of exceptions the country made when ratifying the UN’s Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1997.
Ivanov reaffirmed Russia’s dismissal of the tribunal.
“The question will be solved on a judicial, not political plane, [and] based on Russian legislation, not someone’s political wishes,” the Kremlin official said.
Russia has earlier accused the Netherlands, which filed the lawsuit in the Hamburg court, of ignoring its complaints about the Arctic Sunrise, which sails under the Dutch flag.

The ship was seized in September after a two-month-long voyage in the Russian Arctic that culminated with Greenpeace activists trying to storm a Russian oil rig to protest against drilling for oil in the region.

The ship is currently moored in the Russian port of Murmansk, while all people on board are pending a trial on hooliganism charges, punishable with up to seven years in prison.
The “Arctic 30,” as Greenpeace dubbed them, were initially charged with piracy and spent two months in Russian pretrial detention.

  • But all except one crewmember were released on bail of 2 million rubles ($61,500) per person last week following a massive international campaign in their support.
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131123/184906443/Russia-to-Ignore-Intl-Ruling-on-Greenpeace-Ship--Kremlin.html
23/11/13
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Παρασκευή 22 Νοεμβρίου 2013

Russia says will scrutinize resolution of int’l maritime tribunal.


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MOSCOW, November 22, 20:40 /ITAR-TASS/. Russia will certainly scrutinize Friday’s resolution of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea regarding the Arctic Sunrise case and will formulate a stance on it, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
“We’d like to hope the tribunal tackled the case objectively and took account of all the aspects of the /September 18/ incident involving the ship /from aboard which a group of Greenpeace activists tried to get over to a Russian drilling platform - Itar-Tass/, including a failure of the flag state to honor its international legal obligations and encroachment by ship’s crew on the terms of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in the field of navigation in the exclusive economic zone of a foreign state,” a spokesman for the ministry said.


September 18, The Arctic Sunrise approached a Russian oil drilling rig in the Pechora Sea carrying thirty people aboard, including a number of Greenpeace activists. The tried to get on to the platform from the ship but were detained by Russian maritime border guards.
When the scandalous action was aborted, the ship was towed to the port of Murmansk where all the thirty participants were arrested, initially on charges of sea piracy that were later redefined as hooliganism.

The activists were transported from Murmansk to St Petersburg earlier this month and local courts passed resolutions this week to release them on bail.
  • Friday, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea passed a ruling demanding that Russia release the ship flagged by the Netherlands and the thirty crewmembers on receipt of a 3.6 million bond from the Dutch authorities.
“The Russian Federation shall immediately release the vessel Arctic Sunrise and all persons who have been detained upon the posting of a bond or other financial security by the Netherlands,” said the tribunal’s resolution passed by nineteen arbiters under the presidency of Shunji Yanai from Japan.
The tribunal ordered Russia to allow the vessel and those detained to leave the country.
  • In the meantime, under the terms of the bail specified by the St Petersburg courts, all the Greenpeaceniks released from custody centers should stay in Russia, as charges with hooliganism have not been dropped against them so far.
 itar-tass.com
22/11/13
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UN-backed tribunal orders Russia to release Greenpeace protest ship and crew.


22 November 2013 – The United Nations-backed International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea today ordered that Russia release the Greenpeace ship and its crew that it seized in September following a protest over oil drilling off its coast, once the Netherlands posts a bond of 3.6 million euros.
The Arctic Sunrise – an icebreaker operated by the environmental group and which flies the flag of the Netherlands – was boarded by Russian officials on 19 September, brought to the port of Murmansk Oblast and detained.

Last month, the Netherlands instituted arbitral proceedings against Russia under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, claiming that that the arrest and detention of the vessel and its crew by Russia violated the treaty.
It also requested that the Tribunal, based in the German city of Hamburg, prescribe provisional measures pending the arbitral proceedings. 

By a vote of 19 to 2, the Tribunal’s judges today ordered that, pending arbitration, Russia “shall immediately release the vessel Arctic Sunrise and all persons who have been detained, upon the posting of a bond or other financial security by the Netherlands which shall be in the amount of 3,600,000 euros…”

The Arctic Sunrise was used by Greenpeace International, a non-governmental organization, to stage a protest against the offshore ice-resistant fixed platform ‘Prirazlomnaya’ in the Barents Sea.
un.org
22/11/13
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