Greenpeace International activist Sini Saarela (from Finland) at a detention hearing at Primorskiy Court in St. Petersburg. The Russian Investigative Committee is applying to keep the 'Arctic 30' in prison for a further three months while they investigate their alleged crimes.


The 'Arctic 30' (twenty-eight Greenpeace International activists, as well as a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer) face charges of piracy and hooliganism for a peaceful protest against oil drilling in the Arctic.