MOSCOW: A Russian court on Friday rejected the bail requests of two British nationals remanded in custody along with the 28 other crewmembers of a Greenpeace ship that protested Arctic oil drilling.

A regional court in the northern city of Murmansk turned down the appeal to release a freelance British video journalist Kieron Bryan and Greenpeace activist Phillip Ball, who is also from Britain, the environmental group said.

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