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Russian authorities released a Brazilian Greenpeace activist from prison in Saint Petersburg on Wednesday after she was granted bail, the first of 20 arrested campaigners set to leave jail. Ana Paula Maciel, a deckhand on Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship, walked out of jail following two months in detention after she and 18 crewmates were granted bail, the group said. "Ana Paula Maciel has left prison! She is free! The first of the Arctic 30," Greenpeace's Russian office said on Twitter as hearings continued into the 30 activists charged with hooliganism over their protest against oil prospecting. Greenpeace posted a photo of Maciel smiling broadly outside the prison and holding a piece of paper with the handwritten message "Save the Arctic".
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