Russia has filed piracy charges against Greenpeace activists who tried to climb onto an offshore drilling platform.
The protesters are on a Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, which was seized last week by the Russian coastguard and towed into a port near Murmansk on Tuesday.
It was unclear how many of the 30 activists on board face piracy charges, which carry a potential prison sentence of up to 15 years and a fine of 500,000 rubles (£9,800).
The Investigative Committee, Russia's federal investigative agency, said it would question all those who participated in the protest and detain the "more active" among them.
Arctic Sunrise, Greenpeace's ship Two activists tried to climb onto the Prirazlomnaya platform in the Arctic on Thursday and others assisted from small inflatable boats. The platform is owned by state-controlled gas firm Gazprom.
The Greenpeace protest was aimed at calling attention to the environmental risks of drilling for oil in Arctic waters.
Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said: "When a foreign vessel full of electronic technical equipment of unknown purpose and a group of people calling themselves members of an environmental rights organisation try nothing less than to take a drilling platform by storm, logical doubts arise about their intentions.
"Such activities not only infringe on the sovereignty of a state, but might pose a threat to the environmental security of the whole region."
Greenpeace insists that Russia had no right under international law to board its ship.
One activist claims coastguard officers hit and kicked some activists when they stormed the vessel.
The Arctic Sunrise was anchored on Tuesday in a small bay near Severomorsk, the home port of Russia's Northern Fleet, 15 miles north of Murmansk.
Greenpeace said the 30 activists were from 18 countries.
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