Russia to file piracy charges against Greenpeace


September 24, 2013 at 5:27p.m.

Russia to file piracy charges against Greenpeace

MURMANSK, Russia (AP) - Russia’s top investigative agency said today it will prosecute Greenpeace activists on piracy charges for trying to climb onto an Arctic offshore drilling platform owned by the state-controlled gas company Gazprom. The 30 activists from 18 countries were on a Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, which was seized last week by the Russian Coast Guard. The ship was towed Tuesday into a small bay near Russia’s Arctic port of Murmansk.