The decisions handed down by a Murmansk court on Tuesday against Briton Frank Hewetson and Christian D'Alessandro from Italy now means all 11 bail applications so far heard by Russian authorities have been dismissed.

Greenpeace has already said it intends to seek bail for all 30 activists seized from the group's flagship vessel Arctic Sunrise following a failed attempt to board the Gazprom Neft Shelf-operated Prirazlomnaya platform at the Prirazlomnoye oilfield in the Pechora Sea last month.

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