David Cameron has urged Vladimir Putin to ensure fair treatment for imprisoned Greenpeace activists and journalists in Russia during a phone call with the president.
A Downing Street spokeswoman for Mr Cameron said: “The prime minister raised the case of the Greenpeace activists detained in Russia and the need for prompt, fair and proportionate action by the Russian judicial system.”
The spokeswoman said the Russian president had been “understanding” of Britain’s concerns and the two leaders “agreed to stay in touch on the issue”.
Thirty crew members from around the world, including six Britons, were arrested in September when two activists tried to scale a state-owned Arctic Gazprom oil rig in the Barents Sea.
They were initially investigated for piracy, but later charged with hooliganism.
Mr Cameron’s intervention comes after relatives and supporters of a British journalist Kieron Bryan, who was covering the protest, held a silent protest outside the Russian embassy in London on Saturday.
An international maritime court in the German city of Hamburg began hearing a Dutch complaint over Russia’s detention of the Netherlands-flagged ship, the Arctic Sunrise.
Moscow boycotted Wednesday’s hearing.
Greenpeace Arrests: Cameron Calls Putin
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