Alexandre Paul, a Montreal Greenpeace activist detained by Russian authorities in September, has been released on bail.
Diego Creimer, a spokesman for Greenpeace Canada, confirmed his release Friday morning.
The conditions of his bail were not immediately known, Creimer said. Paul was being taken to a hotel in St. Petersburg in the meantime.
Paul is the second of the two Canadians detained to be released.
The sister of Paul Ruzycki of Port Colborne, Ont., the other Canadian detained, said on Twitter that her brother and Paul were sharing a room together.
Both men were granted bail earlier this week, but their release took a couple of days. There is no word yet on when they will return to Canada.
Paul Ruzycki, chief mate on the Arctic Sunrise, has been with Greenpeace for 25 years. (Courtesy Ruzycki family)
Paul was arrested Sept. 19 aboard Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship along with 29 other members of the environmental activist group.
Some of the members of the group had scaled Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya oil platform in the Arctic's Pechora Sea the day before Russian authorities stormed the ship and arrested all the people aboard it.
The activists were first detained in a northern Russian jail in Murmansk before being transported to SIZO 1 detention centre in St. Petersburg.
The Arctic Sunrise is still in the custody of Russian authorities despite multiple requests to have it returned to Greenpeace. The lawyer defending ship captain Peter Willcox is expected to file a petition with the court seeking the release of the ship.
Of the 30 activists detained, 29 have been granted bail, and 26 of them have been released on bail so far. Greenpeace reports that one activist, Colin Russell of Australia, was not granted bail and has had his stay in jail extended to February.
Paul and Ruzycki are still facing charges of hooliganism after their initial charges of piracy were downgraded.
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