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In the Matter of the Arctic Sunrise Arbitration (The Netherlands v. Russian Federation)

PCA Case No. 2014-02 (14 August 2015)

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In the Matter of the Arctic Sunrise Arbitration (The Netherlands v. Russian Federation)

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PCA Case No. 2014-02 (14 August 2015)

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A Greenpeace ship informed Russia that it intended to protest Russia’s Arctic oil drilling by attaching a “survival capsule” to an offshore oil drilling platform within Russia’s exclusive economic zone. Greenpeace told Russia that everything would be done safely and nonviolently. Greenpeace members attempted to climb the platform and were knocked off with water cannons. Eventually, the Greenpeace ship was boarded by the Russian Coast Guard, who seized the ship and imprisoned the crew for two months on charges of hooliganism. The Greenpeace ship was flying under the flag of the Netherlands, so the Netherlands invoked the compulsory dispute-resolution procedures of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas. Russia refused to participate, but the Netherlands claimed that Russia had violated both the convention and customary ocean law by boarding and seizing a ship engaged in lawful protest.

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