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<\/a>Delegation from Earth about to be evicted from Danish Queen’s dinner party with 100 heads of state at Copenhagen climate summit.Photo and caption: Greenpeace InternationalMADRID—Greenpeace Spain Tuesday delivered a petition backed by 50,000 people to the Danish embassy in Madrid demanding the release of its director and three others who were arrested at the U.N. climate summit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Politicians who let slip the opportunity to save the climate in Copenhagen are in their homes while environmentalists who denounced the lack of summit commitments … remain in jail without even seeing their families,” the coordinator of Greenpeace Spain campaigns, Maria Jose Caballero, said in a statement.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The director of Greenpeace Spain, Juan Lopez de Uralde, and Norwegian Nora Christiasen fooled security staff at the Danish parliament in Copenhagen by drawing up to a Dec. 17 gala dinner of the U.N. climate conference in a limousine and wearing evening attire.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There, they unfurled banners reading “Politicians Talk, Leaders Act” at the entrance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Another Greenpeace protester, 37-year-old Swiss national Christian Schmutz Leinhart, who posed as their bodyguard, was also arrested. The fourth suspect, a Dutch Greenpeace activist, Joris Thijssen, was arrested the next day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a>Police charged them with illegally entering state property and using false police number plates, and a court ordered them to remain in custody until Jan. 7.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Greenpeace is waiting to know what will happen after that date,” the organisation said in a statement.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It said the four are being held “without trial” with “visits and letters restricted.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Caballero and Uralde’s wife, Koro Castellanos, delivered a petition to the Danish embassy in Madrid calling for their release.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Greenpeace said the appeal was backed 50,000 people—around 30,000 on its website and 20,000 more through social networking sites.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Denmark is a country where the right to bail until the conclusion of trial is guaranteed, specifically if the act has not posed any threat and has been peaceful,” the petition said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Greenpeace Spain last week condemned the “extreme, unfair and disproportionate” treatment of the four by Danish authorities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spread the news on what the føck is going on in Copenhagen<\/a> with friends via email, Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, or smoke signals.<\/p>\n Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n A conversation with Indian youth activist Ruchi Jain<\/a><\/p>\n Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax<\/a><\/p>\n
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