Russia must compensate Dutch over Arctic Sunrise ship

Greenpeace's Dutch-flagged Artic Sunrise ship navigating on the Mediterranean sea south of the island of Malta

THE HAGUE  - Russia must compensate the Netherlands "with interest" over the 2013 seizure of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship during a protest against Arctic oil drilling, an international arbitration court said on Monday.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration "found that the Netherlands is entitled to compensation with interest for material damage to the (Dutch-flagged) Arctic Sunrise" and its crew, the Hague-based body said in a statement.