MOSCOW, October 23 (RAPSI) - The Murmansk region court has turned down an appeal filed by Arctic Sunrise ship's captain's mate Miguel Hernan Perez Orzi from Argentina against his detention over the Gazprom drilling platform raid in the Pechora Sea, Greenpeace wrote on its Twitter account on Wednesday.

Miguel Hernan Perez Orzi will remain in detention until November 24.

Earlier, the court denied bail requested by activists from Russia (Denis Sinyakov, Yekaterina Zaspa, Andrei Allakhverdov, and Roman Dolgov), UK (Phillip Ball, John Byan, Frank Hewetson, Anthony Perrett, Alexandra Harris and Iain Rogers), New Zealand (David Hossman), US (Peter Wilcox), Argentina (Camila Especiale), Australia (Colin Russell), Finland (Sini Saarela) and Poland (Tomasz Dziemianczuk ).

On October 9, investigators found drugs aboard the ship.

The platform, owned by Gazprom Neft Shelf, a subsidiary of Russian energy giant Gazprom, is the first ice-resistant stationary oil platform in the world set to produce offshore Arctic oil.

Greenpeace and other environmental groups oppose drilling for oil in the Arctic because they say that it is currently impossible to sufficiently clean up potential oil spills in the region, and that such drilling cannot be economically viable.