Greenpeace members requested their releasing in their protest in Turkish capital of Ankara.

Greenpeace activists Toru Suzuki (below, right) and Junichi Sato (below, left) charged to 1 year prison by the Japan government, they are now awaiting a final verdict. They are charged only for theft and trespassyet it has always been clear that they are being persecuted for so much more.

Greenpeace claimed that corrupt government practices, censoring public information, Japan's adherence to international law, freedom of speech and the right of individual protest together with the commercial killing of thousands of whales are all under the spotlight. And before the verdict has even been rendered, a working group of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has already ruled that, in the defendants' attempts to expose a scandal in the public interest, their human rights have been breached by the Japanese government.