One of the Greenpeace Arctic 30 detainees has been granted bail following a pre-trial hearing in St Petersburg.<br /><br />Russian Yekaterina Zaspa, served as a medic on the Greenpeace ship ‘Arctic Sunrise’. Her bail has been set at around €45,500, hinting at possible leniency in the. <br /><br />On the same day, in a separate court, an Australian detainee, Colin Russell, was denied bail and will be held in custody until at least February 24.<br /><br />Russell, a radio operator on ‘Arctic Sunrise’, was indignant about being detained:<br /><br />“I haven’t done anything wrong. I don’t understand the reasons why I’m being detained. I’ve done two months of hard time for nothing. I’ve done nothing wrong.”<br /><br />Zaspa is expected to be released in two days, once Greenpeace has organised the bail transfer.<br /><br />The Greenpeace activists are being held following an attempt to scale a Russian, state-owned, offshore oil rig in the Arctic on September 18. <br /><br />If convicted of hooliganism, the ‘Arctic 30’ could face up to seven years in jail.
