Russian agents will detain the "most active" of the protesters on the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise. Source: AAP
RUSSIAN authorities have put 30 arrested activists from environmental group Greenpeace in pre-trial jails after questioning several campaigners over a protest against Arctic oil exploration, the group says.
On Tuesday, Russia opened a criminal probe into suspected piracy by four Russian and 26 foreign Greenpeace activists who could face up to 15 years in jail if the case comes to trial.
They had been on board the group's Arctic Sunrise icebreaker, which the Russian security service seized last week and towed to the far northern port city of Murmansk with all 30 activists under arrest.
However they were taken ashore Tuesday evening for questioning and then put in detention centres where suspects are held before trial, known in Russia as Investigative Isolators (SIZO).
"They have been transferred to pre-trial detention centres," Yevgenia Belyakova, a Greenpeace activist, said on Wednesday.
The 30 activists have been taken to various detention centres in and around Murmansk after being questioned until the early hours of Wednesday, she said.
A representative of the regional investigators in Murmansk confirmed to AFP that the activists had been questioned on Tuesday night.
The official requested anonymity as the high-profile case was overseen by Moscow-based colleagues.
"That means it is all very serious," she said.
Greenpeace confirmed its activists had been interrogated Tuesday night after the team was first questioned by investigators aboard the Dutch-flagged vessel.
"The Greenpeace International activists and crew came off the ship at the end of the day and were taken by two buses to the offices of the Investigative Committee in Murmansk," another Greenpeace spokesman, Aaron Gray-Block, said in emailed comments.
"Only five crew were interviewed before a halt was called for the night. No formal charges have been laid yet."
The group had been trying to highlight the dangers of Russian-led efforts to develop the Arctic as ice floes break up due to global warming.
It sent a team of inflatable boats to the Gazprom platform in the Barents Sea earlier this month from the Arctic Sunrise icebreaker and hitched two activists to the side of the rig.
The icebreaker is anchored off the coast of Murmansk after being towed from the scene of the incident by Russian border guards, in a voyage lasting several days.
Greenpeace has condemned Russia's actions and said its supporters had already sent more than 415,000 emails and letters of support for the "Arctic 30" to Moscow's embassies around the world.
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