Greenpeace International activist Gizem Akhan (from Turkey) is released on bail from the SIZO 5 detention centre in St. Petersburg.

The Primorskiy Court in St Petersburg granted bail to Gizem on Thursday (21th November) pending the payment of 2 million ruble bail. She has now left the detention centre, but the conditions of her bail are not yet fully known.

The 'Arctic 30' (twenty-eight Greenpeace International activists, as well as a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer) face charges of piracy and hooliganism in Russia for a peaceful protest against Arctic oil drilling in the Pechora Sea. Greenpeace International insists that piracy and hooliganism charges are unjustified, and that Russian authorities boarded the Arctic Sunrise illegally in international waters. Several international legal experts have supported that view.