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Arctic 30 protesters

News and analysis on Greenpeace's Arctic 30 protesters

June 2024

  • Russian military police board the activists’ ship in On Thin Ice: Putin vs Greenpeace.

    ‘They got their knives out and just started stabbing’: when Putin attacked Greenpeace

    They thought they were mounting a low-key protest against Russian oil – until balaclava-clad soldiers took them prisoner. The Arctic 30 talk about the guns, the alcohol theft … and how Paul McCartney got involved

April 2022

  • Reindeer heard near Örnsköldsvik, northern Sweden

    This is Europe
    ‘Green industry wants to take our land’: the Arctic paradox

    Sweden’s ‘green transformation’ promises to help Europe fight the climate crisis. So why is it uniting radical environmentalists, ecologists and Sami reindeer herders in protest?

January 2017

  • Peter Willcox in court in St Petersburg in November 2013 after Russia seized 30 crew members of the Arctic Sunrise in the Barents Sea.

    ‘The last five years have not been great at Greenpeace’

    With former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson poised to lead US foreign policy, activists like Peter Willcox, skipper of the Rainbow Warrior, are needed more than ever. But are they losing their nerve?

August 2015

  • (FILES) -- This file photo taken on May 25, 2010 shows the environmental group Greenpeace's Dutch-flagged Artic Sunrise ship navigating on the Mediterranean sea south of the island of Malta. Russian commandos seized the Arctic Sunrise in September 2013 and detained 30 Greenpeace activists and journalists after a protest at an offshore oil rig owned by Russian state oil giant Gazprom. The 30, including four Russians, were detained for around two months before being bailed and then benefiting from a Kremlin-backed amnesty. On August 24, 2015 an international arbitration court in the Hague said Russia must compensate the Netherlands "with interest" over the 2013 seizure. AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLAROANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images

    International court rules in favour of Greenpeace activist Colin Russell

    Tasmanian man held prisoner for two months after Russian commandos stormed Arctic Sunrise in 2013 says ‘I’m vindicated’

May 2015

  • Lord Puttnam poses on the red carpet at the BT Sport Industry Awards 2015 at Battersea Evolution on April 30, 2015 in London, England. The BT Sport Industry Awards is the most prestigious commercial sports awards ceremony in Europe, where over 1750 of the industry’s key decision-makers mix with high profile sporting celebrities for the most important networking occasion in the sport business calendar.  (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images for BT Sport Industry Awards)

    Chariots of ice: Lord Puttnam returns to film with Arctic 30 movie

    Veteran producer hopes movie dramatising 2013 detention of Greenpeace activists will help spur a younger generation into action against climate change

April 2015

  • Arctic Sunrise's captain, Peter Willcox, is arrested and led from his ship in Murm

    Don’t Trust, Don’t Fear, Don’t Beg review – sobering tale of Greenpeace’s Arctic 30

    A fast-paced account of Greenpeace activists’ ordeal in a Russian jail raises questions about the future of the environmental movement
  • Ben Stewart, Alex Harris, Frank Hewetson  and Luke Harding speaking at Guardian Live: Freeing the Arctic 30, London, 22 April 2015.

    Guardian Live: Freeing the Arctic 30

    Greenpeace activists Frank Hewetson, Alex Harris and Phil Ball spent 100 days in a Russian prison after protesting against Arctic oil exploration. At a Guardian Members’ event they told the dramatic story of their imprisonment and release
  • Briton Kieron Bryan (R), a Greenpeace International commissioned freelance videographer, attends a bail hearing at the Regional Court of Murmansk October 11, 2013.

    Greenpeace Arctic 30 prisoner contemplated suicide, book says

    A new book, Don’t Trust, Don’t Fear, Don’t Beg, reveals the hardships and insecurity experienced by 30 Greenpeace activists imprisoned in Russia following one of the biggest crises to hit the campaign group

August 2014

  • Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise leaves Murmansk on 1 August 2014

    Greenpeace 'Arctic 30' ship leaves Russia

    Arctic Sunrise, one of three of the group’s fleet, leaves Murmansk following several weeks of repairs

June 2014

  • A close-up of the logo on the new Rainbow Warrior built in 2011, in Vancouver on 2 November 2013.

    Greenpeace losses: leaked documents reveal extent of financial disarray

  • Rainbow Warrior in the North Sea
Arktik 30 Aktivisten an Bord der Rainbow Warrior III

    Observer Ethical Awards 2014 winners: Peter Willcox

  • Kumi Naidoo

    Kumi Naidoo: my five lessons in civil disobedience

  • Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise approaches the  Prirazlomnaya oil rig during Save the Arctic campaign. The banner says "Save the Arctic".

    Arctic 30: Russia releases Greenpeace ship

April 2014

  • Greenpeace storm the Gazprom Prirazlomnaya oil platform in Arctic

    Arctic oil: it is madness to celebrate a new source of fossil fuels

    John Sauven
    John Sauven: As the first barrels head for Europe, we cannot afford – and do not need – new sources of harder to reach fossil fuels

March 2014

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    Arctic 30 protesters seek damages from Russia

    Activists ask European court of human rights to declare illegal Russian seizure of Greenpeace ship protesting at oil drilling

January 2014

  • Colin Russell

    Greenpeace activist Colin Russell may be asked to pay, hints Julie Bishop

  • Colin Russell and his family at Saint Petersburg airport.

    Arctic 30 activist Colin Russell due to land in Tasmania

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    Arctic 30: activist Colin Russell returning home after Russia grants visa

    Greenpeace protester finally receives exit stamp three months after arrest for boarding oil rig
  • Arctic 30: five Britons arrive back in UK from Russia

    Greenpeace activists, crew member and freelance journalist arrive in London by train three months after arrest during protest
  • Greenpeace activists leave Russia

    Greenpeace Arctic 30 activists fly home from Russia – video

    Six Greenpeace Arctic 30 activists leave Russia for home on Friday, three months after authorities seized their ship and arrested them following their protest in the Arctic Ocean

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