14 of the 30 people arrested after an attempt to scale the Gazprom oil platform in Russia's Pechora Sea have been charged with "piracy" on Wednesday.

The 14 charged in the incident aboard the rig in the arctic, included the videographer, who, along with other Greenpeace protesters, were at the oil rig when two activists attempted to scale the platform in protest on September 18th.

Those charged Wednesday are from Russia, Finland, Brazil, Britain, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Poland, Argentina and Sweden. Piracy charges can carry up to 15 years in jail in Russia.

Russian President, Vladimir Putin said last week that it was “obvious that the protesters were not pirates but stated that the protesters were attempting to capture the platform.

Saying that Greenpeace “will not be cowed” by the charges, Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Maidoo said that the piracy charges were meant to intimidate the greenpeace protesters. He called the charges “an outrage.”

Considered a serious offense in Russia, thhe sentence for piracy there is 10 to 15 years in prison. A spokeman for Greenpeace, Aaron Gray-Block, said ”Any charge of piracy against peaceful activists would be absurd and have no merit in international nor Russian law.”

Russian forces sped in on the Greenpeace vessel, the “Arctic Sunrise” firing automatic weapons as the protesters began scaling the oil platform and made their arrests. The next day, special forces traveled to the ship, boarded and seized the vessel before towing it to Murmansk.

The Gazprom rig is the first and only off-shore oil platform in the arctic. It was deployed to the Pechora Sea in 2011 to take advantage of the huge Prirazlomnoye oil field discovered there. Gazprom announced this month that the platform would begin pumping oil from the field this year although a definite date was not announced.