{"id":37900,"date":"2013-10-09T08:08:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T12:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37900"},"modified":"2013-10-09T08:08:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T12:08:19","slug":"greenpeace-surprised-that-russian-prisons-are-inhospitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37900","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace surprised that Russian prisons are inhospitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly, I&#8217;m surprised that the environmental activists didn&#8217;t know that it&#8217;s tough in a Russian prison. I mean, didn&#8217;t they read &#8220;One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich&#8221;? Apparently not. There were arrested for their protest over Arctic oil drilling a few months ago. In a link sent to us by Mark, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2013\/10\/01\/greenpeace-crew-in-shock-in-russian-jails\/?intcmp=obnetwork\">Fox News<\/a> the protesters are &#8220;close to shock&#8221; over their treatment;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The foreign detainees are struggling to make themselves understood since virtually none of the prison staff speaks English, she said. One of the activists has consulted a psychologist.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the foreign nationals have been placed in cells with Russians even though this breaches Russian law, Paikacheva added.<\/p>\n<p>A Polish activist is sharing a cell with four Russians, while one of the British activists has two Russian cellmates, both accused of robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Several non-smoking activists also complain of being placed in cells with chain-smokers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, imagine that &#8211; they were arrested for illegal behavior and sent to some Russian prisons north of the Arctic Circle. Poor little hippies. Who knew that in this day and age, people actually get punished for breaking laws?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly, I&#8217;m surprised that the environmental activists didn&#8217;t know that it&#8217;s tough in a Russian prison. &hellip; <a title=\"Greenpeace surprised that Russian prisons are inhospitable\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37900\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Greenpeace surprised that Russian prisons are inhospitable<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}