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		</div><p>An international tribunal has ordered Russia to pay damages and costs of nearly €5.4m to the Netherlands for unlawfully seizing a Greenpeace ship protesting at an oil platform in Arctic waters.</p>
<p>The Arctic Sunrise, sailing under a Dutch flag, was seized by Russian authorities in September 2013 during a protest against an offshore oil platform.</p>
<p>The 30 people on board were arrested and detained for months before being released shortly before the Sochi Olympics.</p>
<p>The tribunal, which ruled two years ago that the seizure breached an international treaty regulating the laws of the sea, announced the damages on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Greenpeace International&#8217;s general counsel, Jasper Teulings, said the ruling &#8220;emphatically upholds international law and the right to peaceful protest against oil drilling in the Arctic&#8221;.</p>
<p>Six Britons were among a group of 28 activists and two freelance journalists detained on the Arctic Sunrise by Russian security forces during a protest at a Gazprom drilling platform in the Arctic&#8217;s Pechora Sea.</p>
<p>Mr Teulings said: <i>&#8220;The road to justice can be long but today&#8217;s award emphatically upholds international law and the right to peaceful protest against oil drilling in the Arctic &#8211; and at sea worldwide.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Dutch foreign affairs minister Bert Koenders said: <i>&#8220;The rulings make clear that you can&#8217;t just board ships in international waters and arrest those on board.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Arctic Sunrise was exercising the right to demonstrate. The rulings contribute to the development of international law, particularly the laws of the sea and freedom of expression.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mr Koenders called on Moscow to respect the ruling and pay up, adding that the Dutch government would add interest until Russia pays the damages.</p>
<p>The order to Russia included compensation of nearly 1.7 million euros (£1.5 million) for damage to the Arctic Sunrise and just over 3 million euros (£2.6 million) in compensation for material and non-material damages linked to the treatment of those aboard the ship who were detained, known as the Arctic 30.</p>
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