Friday, September 20, 2013

Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise Icebreaker Loses Communication After Russian Forces Storm Aboard With Guns Drawn



Russian authorities on Thursday stormed a Greenpeace vessel, an icebreaker known as Arctic Sunrise that was circling an oil platform, a day after activists were arrested for scaling the platform, which is in the Barents Sea north of Russia, Greenpeace said on its website.

Greenpeace crew members said that Russian authorities rappelled onto the ship from a helicopter with guns drawn. Crew members locked themselves in the communications room, where they had been tweeting up until the ship lost contact with Greenpeace.

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