{"id":37020,"date":"2013-09-25T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T12:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=37020"},"modified":"2013-09-25T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T12:48:40","slug":"putin-greenpeace-activists-arent-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=37020","title":{"rendered":"Putin: Greenpeace Activists Aren&#8217;t Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/RUSSIA-GREENPEACE_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-37018\" alt=\"RUSSIA-GREENPEACE_\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/RUSSIA-GREENPEACE_.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/RUSSIA-GREENPEACE_.jpg 620w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/RUSSIA-GREENPEACE_-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/RUSSIA-GREENPEACE_-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a>Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Greenpeace activists apprehended after trying to scale an offshore oil platform aren&#8217;t pirates, but defended the detention saying Coast Guard officers had no way of knowing who they were.<\/p>\n<p>Two members of the group were detained Sept. 18 in their attempt to scale the Arctic platform. The Coast Guard seized Greenpeace&#8217;s ship the next day and towed it with 30 activists aboard, to Murmansk, where they are being questioned by investigators considering piracy charges.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear whether Putin&#8217;s comments might foreshadow leniency for the activists, who could face 10-15 years in prison if convicted of piracy.<\/p>\n<p>The detained activists are from 18 countries, including Russia, and a long detention or trials could draw unwelcome international attention to Russia&#8217;s tough policy against protests.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace insisted that under international law Russia had no right to board its ship and has no grounds to charge its activists with piracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Greenpeace activists apprehended after trying to scale an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}