{"id":99578,"date":"2024-07-22T14:14:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T14:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/22\/anti-whaling-activist-paul-watson-arrested-in-greenland-and-may-be-extradited-to-japan\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T14:14:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T14:14:06","slug":"anti-whaling-activist-paul-watson-arrested-in-greenland-and-may-be-extradited-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/22\/anti-whaling-activist-paul-watson-arrested-in-greenland-and-may-be-extradited-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested in Greenland and may be extradited to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An anti-whaling activist has been arrested in Greenland on an international warrant issued by Japan.<\/p>\n

Paul Watson will be brought before a district judge with a request to detain him pending a decision on his possible extradition to Japan, the force added.<\/p>\n

The 73-year-old was detained when his ship docked in Nuuk, the autonomous Danish territory’s capital, Greenland police said.<\/p>\n

The Captain Paul Watson Foundation said more than a dozen police boarded the vessel when it stopped to refuel and led Watson away in handcuffs.<\/p>\n

The foundation said in a statement: “The arrest is believed to be related to a former Red Notice issued for Captain Watson’s previous anti-whaling interventions in the Antarctic region.”<\/p>\n

“We implore the Danish government to release Captain Watson and not entertain this politically-motivated request,” added Locky MacLean, a foundation director.<\/p>\n

The foundation said Mr Watson’s ship, the M\/Y John Paul DeJoria, along with 25 volunteer crew members, was due to sail through the Northwest Passage along northern Canada to the North Pacific to confront a newly built Japanese factory whaling ship.<\/p>\n

It described the whaling ship as “a murderous enemy devoid of compassion and empathy hell bent on destroying the most intelligent self-aware sentient beings in the sea”.<\/p>\n

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Mr Watson formerly headed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose high-seas confrontations with whaling vessels drew support from A-list celebrities and featured in the reality TV series Whale Wars.<\/p>\n

But the society’s direct action tactics brought the Canadian-American citizen into confrontation with the authorities.<\/p>\n

He was detained in Germany in 2012 on a Costa Rican extradition warrant, but skipped bail after learning he was also being sought for extradition by Japan.<\/p>\n

Tokyo has accused him of endangering whalers’ lives during operations in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

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Mr Watson has since lived in several countries, including France and the United States.<\/p>\n

He left Sea Shepherd in 2022 to establish his own organisation.<\/p>\n

Mr Watson was also a leading member of Greenpeace, but left in 1977 following disagreements over his aggressive tactics.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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