Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30

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PHOTOGRAPHS

^{The Arctic Sunrise near the Prirazlomnaya oil rig, on its way to protest against offshore drilling in the Arctic.}

^{Dimitri ‘Dima’ Litvinov. Born in Russia, raised in internal exile in Siberia, educated in America, he lived with his family in Sweden before sailing to the Arctic.}

^{The 61-year-old American captain Pete Willcox on the bridge of the Arctic Sunrise, four days before the protest.}

^{Frank Hewetson (yellow helmet) keeps watch as Sini Saarela climbs the side of the Gazprom-owned oil platform. Kruso Weber, hanging above her, is already attracting spray from a water cannon.}

^{A Russian coastguard officer pulls a gun on the protesters.}

^{Phil Ball filmed the first soldier rappelling onto the deck of the Sunrise. He later hid the camera card in the sole of his boot.}

^{Dima is pushed to the ground outside the bridge door, minutes after soldiers started landing on the Arctic Sunrise.}

^{Footage shot by Phil Ball of the Russian security services seizing the ship at gunpoint.}

^{British activist Frank Hewetson at Leninsky District Court in Murmansk, where he was told he would be jailed while the authorities investigated an allegation of piracy.}

^{Sini Saarela from Finland at her appeal hearing in Murmansk.}

^{A smuggled image of one of the cells at Murmansk SIZO-1, where the Arctic 30 were held.}

^{The outside wall of Murmansk SIZO-1. At night the windows would be connected by ropes that formed the doroga – the road.}

^{Another view of the prison’s exterior.}

^{Mads Christensen with his wife and colleague Nora at the Global Day of Solidarity in Copenhagen.}

^{Two weeks after the ship was raided, 1,300 people marched past the Russian Embassy in Helskinki, one of 135 protests held in forty-five countries on the same day.}

^{British activist Phil Ball at his bail hearing in St Petersburg. Sewed into his T-shirt are the words SAVE THE ARCTIC! in Russian.}

^{Ben Stewart and Ben Ayliffe watching the live feed from court on the second day of the bail hearings.}

^{Sini Saarela, Alex Harris and Camila Speziale.}

^{Group shot of the Arctic 30. They are, from bottom left: Denis Sinyakov, Kieron Bryan, Roman Dolgov, Mannes Ubels, Frank Hewetson, Phil Ball, Ana Paula Maciel. From upper left: Iain Rogers, Sini Saarela, Camila Speziale, Gizem Akhan, Alex Harris, Cristian D’Alessandro, Hernan Orsi, Pete Willcox, Anne Mie Jensen, Faiza Oulahsen, Jon Beauchamp, David Haussmann, Marco ‘Kruso’ Weber, Ruslan Yakushev, Colin Russell, Paul Ruzycki, Alexandre ‘Po’ Paul, Dima Litvinov, Anthony Perrett. Missing are Francesco Pisanu, Andrey Allakhverdov, Tomasz Dziemianczuk and Katya Zaspa.}

^{Pete Willcox with his wife Maggy. Before sailing for the Prirazlomnaya Pete sent Maggy a postcard, saying: ‘If the Russians keep their sense of humour, I think this is going to be a fun action.’}

INDEX

Akhan, Gizem, in SIZO-1, Murmansk 198

Akhmatova, Anna 277, 278

Alexander (lawyer) 243, 263

Alexei (inmate) 101, 108, 109–10, 211

imprisonment of 110

Allakhverdov, Andrey, in SIZO-1, Murmansk 110–11, 125

Amnesty International, Litvinov Sr alerts 86

Anders, William 1

Andrews, Iris 136

Andropov, Yuri 95

Anton (inmate) 282, 295, 305, 310, 311, 317

Arctic:

‘always been Russian’ 176

calls for sanctuary status of 346–7

as planet’s air conditioner 131

Russian platform in, see Arctic 30 activists/crew; Prirazlomnaya platform

and Russian seabed flag 129, 170, 176

Arctic 30 activists/crew:

accused of being CIA 49

and Amnesty Bill 329–33

bail applications for 290–1, 296–300, 302–4, 305–11, 319; granted, see individual activists/crew

calls to Russian embassies for release of 134

campaign to free: apology statement drafted by 173–4; appeals launched by 155, 179–80; Christensen made leader of 51–2; and Christensen’s global sources 168; Emergency Day of Solidarity 134–5; further global action by 193, 296–7; Gazprom stations shut down by 139; global co-ordination by 136–7; global hubs of 135; London hub of 135–6; and UEFA Champions League game 137–9

charges against 204

eventual numbers calling for release of 346

families called from Arctic Sunrise by 53

hashtag devised for 50

initial interrogations of 57–8

Investigative Committee HQ arrival of 56

Investigative Committee tries to split 252

jail arrival of, Murmansk 68–9

jail arrival of, St Petersburg 276–7

jail sentences pronounced on 65–6

London homecoming of members of 335–6

Moscow march for release of 208

Murmansk arrival of 55–6

Nobel laureates’ plea for 199

piracy charges against 5, 58, 101, 109, 121, 147; hooliganism substituted for 204–6

post-release bonds among women of 323

post-release confinement of 328

Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights offers to act as guarantor for 263

at Prirazlomnaya protest 19–28

prison psychologist’s meeting with 119–20

prison transfer of 270–3, 275–6; prospect of 257–8, 260, 264, 267–9

Russian citizens complain about detention of 129

smuggled letters to and from 159–60

state broadcaster’s news reports on 110–11

supplies got to 162

thirtieth day of imprisonment of 193

Tutu’s letter concerning 198

see also Arctic Sunrise

Arctic Sunrise:

film footage of Russians’ raid on, see camera memory card, footage on

FSB’s drugs-find claim concerning 189–93

guns fired towards 25–6, 28–9

ITLOS orders release of 322

Prirazlomnaya hailed by 21

Prirazlomnaya platform observed by 11–12

RHIBs launched from 11–12

Russian occupation of 31–41

Russians’ aggressive radio messages to 14

Russians disable comms systems of 37

towing of, to Murmansk 41–7

see also Arctic 30 activists/crew

Argus 342, 348

Artamov, Andrey 8

Auden, W.H. 93

Ayliffe, Ben 33, 136, 172, 186–7, 289, 302, 306