14 DAY TRIAL // Yesterday, a judge in St. Petersburg agreed to grant bail to Australian Colin Russell, the last of Greenpeace's Arctic 30 still imprisoned in Russia.
The bad news is that, although the 30 environmentalists are no longer behind bars, those who are not Russian nationals have not yet been given permission to leave St. Petersburg and return home to their families. Huffington Post has managed to contact American Greenpeace activist Peter Willcox, who said that he would have to spend another three months in Russia until authorities decided what to do with him.
The same might be true for the other Greenpeace protesters whose home country is not Russia.
“I'm feeling good. I'm optimistic. Our lawyers feel there's a very small chance of us going back to jail,” Peter Willcox told the publication during a phone interview yesterday.
“Whether I'm home for Christmas or not is anybody's guess, but I think I'll be home sometime soon at least,” he went on to say.
As previously reported, the Arctic 30 are still charged with hooliganism, and, if found guilty, could be sentenced to 7 years behind bars.