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Russia refuses to free Greenpeace vessel ignoring UN maritime tribunal order
The United Nations maritime tribunal has ordered Russia to free a Greenpeace vessel and 30 people detained after an oil drilling protest in the Arctic. The court in the German city of Hamburg said a bond of 3.6 million Euros should be posted. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCan anyone honestly say they are surprised?
Nov 22nd, 2013 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Russia i can join with you? Great Russia, hope of humanity,.
Nov 22nd, 2013 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Only problem is Brasileiro.....Russia most definitely wouldn't welcome you....
Nov 23rd, 2013 - 12:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Didn't The Hamburg tribunal rule in favour of releasing the ARA Libertad a year ago???
Nov 23rd, 2013 - 02:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0The crew were lucky they didnt get at least 15 years. They will not tolerate any other activists fooling around their oil rigs.
@4
Nov 23rd, 2013 - 02:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Exactly. If ever you needed a demonstration of the difference in power between a small African nation and Russia this will do. I can't believe how naïve these activists are. What did they really think was going to happen to them?
Take the boat out over some trench and scuttle it.
Nov 23rd, 2013 - 05:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0That will teach them not to screw with the Russians at least.
@4CD
Nov 23rd, 2013 - 07:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Agree, niavity in the extreme, bordering on criminal stupidity. Unless of course these people knew of the probable consequences and were prepared to be martyrs for their beliefs. In which case it's still criminal stupidity, because there are other ways to demonstrate.
Their actions are misguided, their knowledge of the Arctic is minimal and they are promoting a false agenda. Apart from that, good luck to them. They had already been warned off once, this episode was intended to put them off for the future.
Nov 23rd, 2013 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Greenpeace lost the plot years ago. Perhaps, at one time, it “acted” on issues that everybody, or at least the majority, could relate to. They are no longer activists, they are anarchists. No doubt, when they were detained, they thought that there would be a world outcry. The world has been remarkably muted. Haven't seen any maps showing precisely where the Arctic Sunrise was detained. Or the precise extent of Russian territorial waters in the area. The maritime tribunal will have to justify its approach and judgement. Especially as the detention took place within Russia's EEZ. But, if they took actions unacceptable to the Russians whilst in Russian territorial waters, getting into international waters was no protection. Universal jurisdiction applies. But, in this particular case, they were fooling with the health, welfare, even the lives, of hundreds of millions of people. Not only in Russia but, at the least, across northern Europe. The problem with these people is that they always have to have a “cause”. But the “report” to ITLOS certainly seems to suggest the sort of actions consistent with those of terrorists. A number of RHIBs lowered from a parent vessel, then heading at high speed toward a gas rig, towing “something”. Then individuals climbing on to the rig. I'd lock them away, Greenpeace or not. And the government of the Netherlands should be ashamed of itself!
Nov 23rd, 2013 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 9
Nov 23rd, 2013 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I know I said I would not respond to you, BUT whatever it is that you are taking OR not taking that has resulted in a post of yours that I can agree with, KEEP DOING IT.
I agree with you wholeheartedly.
@10 Perhaps you could consider a few “principles”. Appeasement NEVER works. Only be “reasonable” with those that are reasonable. Warning an aggressor what you CAN do is better than having to do it. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. The “meek” will inherit the earth. In six foot by six foot by three foot parcels. Dying on your feet is preferable to living on your knees. Defend the right. Whatever it takes.
Nov 24th, 2013 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sink it. Greenpeacers are terrorists and should have been tried as such.
Nov 24th, 2013 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Greenpeacers are terrorists...”
Nov 24th, 2013 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brought to you by the same people who called torture 'enhanced interrogation'.
”Greenpeacers' are simply idealists with an inflated sense of their own importance who can't distinguish between annoying Japanese whalers and 'the new Russian order'.
You have to feel sorry the the “poor liddle babba argie” shown in PLATE 11 BELOW:
Nov 24th, 2013 - 03:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/theweekinpictures/10467615/The-week-in-pictures-22-November-2013.html#?frame=2743050
”Miguel Hernan Perez Orsi of Argentina, left, reacts to a verdict and holds a photo of his daughter in a cage at a court room during a hearing that's considering the investigators request to extend the detention of 30 members of the Arctic Sunrise Greenpeace International ship in St.Petersburg, Russia. Miguel Hernan Perez Orsi was released on bail of 2 million rubles ($61,500).”
So after blubbering his head off and clinging to a photo of his daughter they gave him bail of U$D 61,500. So that will be the last the bailbond guy will see of him or the money.
Argies; cowards at home and away.
What a wanker.
@ChrisR
Nov 25th, 2013 - 05:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I see a British cowardly crying after bail bond Oops??????
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510496/Free-bail-British-Greenpeace-girl-held-Russian-jail.html
Peter Willcox British captain... “I was Scared” Oops?????
“The first five weeks when we were being hit with the piracy charge I lost a lot of sleep,“ he recalled. ”I was nervous, I was scared. I just couldn't believe that they were going to put us to jail for years and years”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510496/Free-bail-British-Greenpeace-girl-held-Russian-jail.html
No British no cry... by Bob
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510496/Free-bail-British-Greenpeace-girl-held-Russian-jail.html
ha ha
@ 15 Dumb-ass DanyBerger
Nov 25th, 2013 - 08:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But the Brits never claimed that they were anything but apprehensive, unlike you who claim to be able to “smash” me.
But you just can’t stand it can you when one of the Greenpeace “warriors” turns out to be just another cowardly argie, just like your army and navy. At least the Air Force had balls in 1982, even though quite a number lost them when they were shot down by Harriers.
You can never win when it comes to guts because the argies don’t have any: fact.
Now be a good little boy and run away and find the REAL DanyBerger, the one we can hold a reasonable argument with without him crying.
Since it appears we are taking a poll, I agree with Russia.
Nov 26th, 2013 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hooliganism, as an intentional and planned act, is hardly an exercise of freedom of the seas. That logic would justify those acts of the Guardia Civil currently against Gibraltar.
@ChrisR
Nov 27th, 2013 - 02:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are the greatest dancer I have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-GcL1Cd5b4
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