A Russian court has granted bail to another seven Greenpeace activists involved in the Arctic oil rig protest.
They are the first foreigners to be become eligible for release from jail while awaiting trial over the action.
It comes after three Russian nationals were freed on Monday.
Ana Paula Maciel of Brazil, New Zealander David Haussmann and Argentina's Miguel Orsi will be freed pending payment of two million rubles (£38,000) each, Greenpeace said.
Also granted bail on Tuesday were Paul Ruzycki from Canada, Tomasz Dziemianczuk from Poland, Italian Cristian D'Alessandro and Camila Speziale, who holds dual Italian-Argentine citizenship.
Orsi, clutching a photograph of his baby daughter, broke into tears when the judge announced his decision.
Maciel held up this note in court Maciel also began crying as she was led away from the courtroom.
Thirty people including six Britons aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise were detained after the protest in September.
They were initially charged with piracy but are now accused of hooliganism, which carries a shorter maximum jail term of seven years.
Video filmed by Greenpeace showed some of the activists trying to climb on to the oil rig, Russia's first in the region.
The protest at the Prirazlomnaya oil platform On Monday the Primorsky court refused a bail application by Australian Colin Russell and remanded him in custody for another three months.
Russell told the judge: "I don't understand the reasons why I've been detained. I've done two months' hard time for nothing."
The three Russians - Yekaterina Zaspa, the Greenpeace vessel's medic, photographer Denis Sinyakov and activist Andrey Allakhverdov - were granted bail by another court in St Petersburg.
Other bail hearings were also expected to be held on Tuesday.
The jail in Murmansk where the activists were originally held The six Britons on remand include journalist Kieron Bryan, whose lawyer has reportedly asked for his case to be adjourned until Wednesday.
His father, Andy Bryan, described the bail application as "very much in the balance".
Prosecutors had originally asked the courts in St Petersburg to keep all 30 arrested in jail beyond November 24, when their current detention period runs out.
They had been detained in Murmansk in the Arctic but have been moved to prisons in St Petersburg.
Greenpeace denies any wrongdoing and is urging Russia to release all the detainees - who come from 18 different countries - and their ship.
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