‘Don’t Trust Don’t Fear Don’t Beg’ motto of 108
gay men in 106
Hewetson’s ‘review’ of 220–2
letters smuggled to and from prisoners in 159–61
library in 143–4
prisoners still fighting regime in 345
rope network (doroga) in 5–10, 75, 85, 99, 102, 103–4, 112–15, 123
routine in 85
surviving, crash course in 102–7
women’s tapping code in 84, 117, 144–5, 204
women’s zone in 107–8
‘woollen’ cells in 76–7
SIZO-1, St Petersburg (Kresty), see individual activists/crew:
activists’ arrival at 278–9
described 276
escapes from 277–8
SIZO-4, St Petersburg:
activists’ arrival at 279
officials’ tour of 286
SIZO-5, St Petersburg:
activists’ arrival at 279
officials’ tour of 285–6
Slaiby, Pete 138
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr 88, 92–3, 143–4, 277, 343
banned works of 93
Speziale, Camila:
and Amnesty Bill 332
bail application of 305, 307
cell of 70–1
father’s letter to 271
jail arrivals of, see under Arctic 30 activists/crew
jail sentence pronounced on 66
onboard detente orchestrated by 47
platform pod occupied by 16
previous work of 118
at Prirazlomnaya protest, see under Arctic 30
activists/crew prison transfer of, see under Arctic 30
activists/crew release of, on bail 313–14
and Russian seizure of Arctic Sunrise, see under Arctic Sunrise
in SIZO-1, Murmansk 68–71, 78, 84, 117–18, 203–4; Harris’s tapping code with 84, 145, 204; and T-shirt gift from family 162
in SIZO-5, St Petersburg 292
Willcox’s reunion with 319
Stalin, Joseph 89–90, 91, 97, 244
Stepan (inmate) 74–5, 79
Stolypin, Pyotr 258
Stravinsky, Igor 93
Suchkov, Andrey 288
Sunday Times 274
Suu Kyi, Aung San 199
Suzie Q (RHIB) 22–3
Teulings, Jasper 50, 136, 260–1, 322
Trotsky, Leon 89 (See also Lev Broshtein)
Tsyplenkov, Sergey 185
Turner, James 130
Tutu, Desmond 198
Ukraine 343
Under the Green Roof 87
Vasilieva, Tatiana 189, 194
Vasily (inmate) 279–80, 288, 309
Vettel, Sebastian 160
Vitaly (inmate) 101–3, 104–8, 109–10, 179, 229, 241, 269
Voight, Jon 248
Wałęsa, Lech 199
Wallace, George 245
Weber, Kruso:
aboard Ladoga 26, 42
appeal of 180–1
back on Arctic Sunrise 42–3
banner demands release of 30
leaves Russia 336–7
at Prirazlomnaya protest, see under Arctic 30
in SIZO-1, Murmansk 263
see also Arctic 30 activists/crew
WikiLeaks 129
Willcox, Elsie 244–5
Willcox, Henry 244
Willcox, Maggy 247, 249, 343
Willcox, Pete:
bail granted to 312–13
birth and early life of 244–7; and trip to USSR 246–7
captains Seeger’s boat 247
commandos and coastguard officers faced by 15
described 14
diary entries of: in SIZO-1, Murmansk 243–4, 249–50, 263, 265; in SIZO-1, St Petersburg 281, 285, 295–6, 301, 305, 312–13
earlier arrests of 248
first Greenpeace captaincy of 247
first protest of 245–6
home return of 343
marriages of 249
and Mikhail Ulyanov 341
piracy charges against 247
portrayed in Rainbow Warrior movie 248
at Prirazlomnaya protest, see under Arctic 30 activists/crew
Rainbow Warrior captained by 15, 248
release of, on bail 319
and Russian seizure of Arctic Sunrise, see under Arctic Sunrise
self-questioning by 313
in SIZO-1, Murmansk, diary entries of 243–4, 249–50, 263, 265
in SIZO-1, St Petersburg 312–13; diary entries of 281, 285, 295–6, 302, 305, 312–13
strip-searched and fingerprinted 60
see also Arctic 30 activists/crew
Willcox, Roger 244, 246
Winter Olympics 172, 331, 345
Yakushev, Ruslan 30
Yeltsin, Boris 175, 278
Yuri (inmate) 7, 10, 109, 112–15, 142, 148, 194–5, 203, 206, 207, 252, 267–8, 269
charges against 6
Zaspa, Dr Katya 134
bail application of 302–3; granted 303
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Ben Stewart is a former Guardian Student Journalist of the Year. He was one of the six protesters cleared of criminal damage in a groundbreaking trial after climbing the chimney at Kingsnorth power station. In its ‘Year in Ideas’ issue the New York Times magazine described the verdict as one of the defining moments of 2008. In 2010 he led the first Greenpeace expedition to challenge Arctic oil drilling off the coast of Greenland. In 2013 he was a leading figure in the campaign to free the Arctic 30. He lives in London.
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