Watch the video above: Newly released footage from Arctic Sunrise seizure
Newly released video shows the moment Russian authorities boarded the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise in September.
The footage, released on Friday by Greenpeace, shows armed Russian security agents boarding and seizing the ship.
Twenty-eight Greenpeace activists – including two Canadians – a Russian photographer and a British videographer have been held since the Arctic Sunrise was seized by the Russian coast guard after a protest near a Gazprom-owned oil rig on Sept. 18.
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Greenpeace said the video footage shows the activists responding peacefully “with arms raised” when the agents boarded the ship, and subsequently towed it to the port of Murmansk.
On Wednesday, Russia failed to show up for an international court that is hearing a bid from the Netherlands to force the release of the ship and the activists. A representative for the Netherlands urged the court to proceed despite Russia’s absence.
It was announced earlier this month that the so-called Arctic 30 would be moved to a prison in St. Petersburg, from the current jail in Murmansk.
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Alexandre Paul, of Montreal, and Paul Ruzycki, of Port Colborne, Ont., were among those arrested.
In a recent letter, Paul said the Murmansk prison was cold and that the activists had been separated from each other. But Greenpeace says it doesn’t mean the conditions at the new facility will be any better.
*With files from The Associated Press
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