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Russia starts refunding bail money in Arctic Sunrise case

The ship contained complex technical equipment and its transfer required presence of specialists who would decide on possible repair work
Argentine Greenpeace activist Camila Speziale (R) is welcome by a member of Greenpeace upon her at the Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Buenos Aires EPA/DANIEL JAYO
Argentine Greenpeace activist Camila Speziale (R) is welcome by a member of Greenpeace upon her at the Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Buenos Aires
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ST. PETERSBURG, January 21. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian authorities have started returning bail sureties put up by Greenpeace organization for all the environmental activists arrested on criminal charges for the September 2013 storming of a Russian Arctic oil installation, campaign lawyer Anton Beneslavsky said on Tuesday.

“It is being returned now,” he said, adding that the activists’ personal belongings and their ship, the Arctic Sunrise, were also being transferred.

“Most documents have already been returned,” Beneslavsky said, noting that it was unclear, though, when the campaign group’s ship, still under arrest in the port of Murmansk, would be released.

The ship contained complex technical equipment and its transfer required presence of specialists who would decide on possible repair work, the lawyer explained.