Last Greenpeace activist cleared of hooligan charges

Russia yesterday started issuing visas to foreign crew members of a Greenpeace protest ship and dropped the criminal case against the last member of the 30-strong team.

Christian d’Alessandro was notified by investigators that the case against him had been dropped, Greenpeace said.

Earlier this week, Russia closed the cases of 29 crew members of Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise ship under a Kremlin-backed amnesty.