Was he over 400 pounds prior to the arrest?
Posted on 12/29/2013 2:07:07 PM PST by RightGeek
A Greenpeace campaigner claims he was forced to live on bread and water while being held in a Russian prison because it didn't offer a vegetarian alternative.
Antony Perrett arrived home yesterday after spending two months in prisons in Murmansk and St Petersburg for trying to hang a climate change banner on an oil rig.
The former town councillor is one a group of environmental activists known as the Arctic 30 who were being held in Russia on hooliganism charges.
Since being released under a new amnesty law, the 33-year-old has revealed he refused to eat some of the food offered to him behind bars.
'All the prison food had low grade meat of unknown origin in it. I'm a vegetarian and I lost a lot of weight,' he said from his home in Newport, South Wales.
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That's what I thought! Bread made with animal fat, not corn oil.
Do they serve pork to muslims?
Not even if it’s hallal?
What, no cucumbers? My husband used to travel to Russia and said they served cukes at every single meal.
I don’t wish foreign prison on anyone but, geez louise, what a pantywaist to complain that he wasn’t offered a “vegetarian alternative.” Talk about 1st World problems.
Homo fruit should have starved. Dopey POS
I see an ugly fake leather couch, a GF with a dental problem, things made of wood (save the planet), synthetic plastic bags (poisonous chemicals used to make them!), gift paper made with poisonous dyes, ugly shag synthetic rugs...oh my!
Dear Porky,
You should be glad they didn’t shoot you, you stupid imbecile!
He wasn't "forced" to live on bread and water if he chose not to eat the mystery meat.
He’s a vegetarian. Not a vegan. There’s a difference.
Is it an important difference?
“he was forced”
“ he refused to eat some of the food”
these are two contradictory statements in the same article. He was not forced. He chose not to eat some of the food offered to him.
It appears that Russia attracts weirdos from around the world.
A woman and her “pet” husband.
Shoulda served him deep fried whale blubber and polar bear burgers.
Was he over 400 pounds prior to the arrest?
Looks like the Russians gave him a nice jacket too.
That's from eating all that bread. If he'd eaten the meat, he'd have been a lot healthier when he got out.
I wonder how many of them are so arrogant that they would ever cross the Russians again?
They were extremely lucky that the Russians were having a “European” mood swing, instead of an “Asian” one.
Google it. Vegans are opposed to all animal products, including non-consumables, such as leather. Might as well look up vegetarian while you`re at it.
Too bad the sorry bastard didn’t croak!!!
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