Peter Henry Wilcox
- Criminal Code
- Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Region
- Murmansk Oblast
- City
- Murmansk
- Address for letters
- 196655, Ленинградская область, г. Колпино, Колпинская ул., д. 9, ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Санкт-Петербургу и Ленинградской области "Кресты", Уилкокс Питер Генри, 1953 г.р.
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Memorial Human Rights Centre, 15 October 2013
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Case summary
Detained in connection with the peaceful protest of Greenpeace activists who, in September 2013, sailed on the ship "Arctic Sunrise" to the "Prirazlomnaya" oil platform in the Pechora Sea, protesting against the development of oil and gas fields on the Arctic shelf. The ship was forcibly stopped, and all those on board were detained. He was initially charged with piracy, which was later reclassified as hooliganism. He was in custody from September 2013, and he was released on bail in November 2013. He was granted amnesty in December 2013.
Others charged under Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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