Moscow - A British woman and a Dutch woman have been granted bail by a Russian court after being detained with 28 others on a Greenpeace ship in the Arctic. Alex Harris and Dutch national Faiza Oulahsen are expected to be freed from custody in the northern city of St Petersburg once bail is paid.
Nine other foreign detainees and three Russians were granted bail earlier. Two other Britons, Kieron Bryan and Anthony Perrett, are also hoping to be granted bail on Wednesday. But they will be nervous too, the BBC's Daniel Sandford reports from the court. Three other British activists will have their bail hearings later this week. Of the 13 detainees who have appeared in court earlier this week all but one were given bail. The detainees have been held on charges of hooliganism after taking part in a protest at an Arctic offshore oil rig operated by the Russian company Gazprom.
If found guilty they face up to seven years in prison. Among the others awaiting a decision on Wednesday is the ship's US captain, Peter Willcox, who was also the captain of Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior ship blown up by French foreign intelligence in 1985.(FA)
