The Netherlands: A Greenpeace Ship Heads Home After a Russian Ordeal
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Version 0 of 1. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise departed for the Netherlands on Friday nearly a year after Russian authorities seized it during a protest against an oil platform, the environmental group Greenpeace International said. The group said that Arctic Sunrise left the northern Russian port city of Murmansk and was headed to Amsterdam, where the group is based. The ship was seized by Russian authorities in September 2013 during a protest against the offshore oil platform, and the 30 people on board were arrested and held for months in prison before being released. Greenpeace opposes the location of the platform within the Arctic Circle. The ship will undergo repairs in Amsterdam and will then return to use in its campaign against Arctic drilling as soon as possible, the group said. |