Russia has reduced the charges against the “Arctic 30,” the 30 people detained in a direct action against Russia’s first Arctic offshore oil rig last month. The 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists are no longer accused of piracy but are still facing charges of “hooliganism” that could land them in jail for up to seven years. At a hearing on Wednesday where bail was denied, one of the Greenpeace activists said the group was unlawfully captured at sea.

Dima Litvinov: “I’m glad that there’s information about us still going, but, I mean, we’re not staying in order to do the action. We came here in order to protest, and we did not come here in order to go to prison. In fact, we’ve not come to Russia at all — we were brought here under threat of fire.”