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"Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has been arrested
in Greenland and awaits potential extradition to Japan.
The arrest relates to incidents in the Southern Ocean in February 2010. The
charges against Watson include “accomplice to an assault” and “ship trespass”.
Both relate to the boarding of the Japanese vessel
Shonan Maru No 2 by Pete
Bethune, who was captain of the Sea Shepherd vessel
Ady Gil. Bethune was
detained on the
Shonan Maru No 2 and returned to Japan for trial, where he
received a suspended sentence. An international arrest warrant was issued for
Watson in 2012.
At the time of the recent arrest on July 21, Watson’s ship had stopped for
refuelling while en route to intercept a Japanese whaling vessel, the
Kangei
Maru. He was on board the
John Paul DeJoria, owned by the Captain Paul
Watson Foundation he founded two years ago.
Watson left Sea Shepherd in 2022, following disputes with directors over the
value of direct action and confrontation. He originally founded Sea Shepherd
after falling out with Greenpeace for similar reasons.
His arrest brings the issue of whaling back to the fore. Despite a flurry of
activity in the courts a decade ago, the issue hasn’t gone away. That’s because
Japan withdrew from the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling
and its decision-making body in 2019 and resumed commercial whaling."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
