ST PETERSBURG/MURMANSK, November 11 (Itar-Tass) - The Greenpeace activists arrested in Murmansk are being transferred to St Petersburg to arrive there on November 12, a source among the investigation world officials told Itar-Tass.
According to preliminary information they will arrive in St Petersburg on November 12 by train, said the source.
A source in the Greenpeace press service told Itar-Tass that the Greenpeace activists taken from the investigation ward were being transported in a specially equipped prison service train carriage attached to Murmansk-St Petersburg passenger train. “They left the investigation ward in the Murmansk region at five in the morning,” said the source.
The Murmansk region agency of the Federal Penitentiary Service confirmed that all the 30 arrested Greenpeace activists left the investigation ward in the morning. There had been no comment on the Greenpeace activists’ transfer from the Investigative Agency of Russia’s Investigative Committee for the North Western Federal District dealing with the Greens case. Investigators earlier confirmed to Itar-Tass that the detained activists were to be moved to St. Petersburg, as this would facilitate translation and the defence of the detained during the investigation.
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