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Denmark Refuses Extradition of Anti-Whaling Activist Paul Watson

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Paul Watson, a 74-year-old anti-whaling campaigner, has been detained in Greenland since July for an arrest warrant issued by Japan in 2012. The warrant accused him of causing damage to a Japanese whaling ship and injuring a crew member during an encounter in Antarctic waters in 2010. Watson's detention was due to an international arrest warrant, but Denmark has refused to extradite him to Japan. As a result, Watson has been released from detention in Greenland, and he is expected to be reunited with his children for Christmas.

  1. DK
    Peter Hummelgaard
    Danish Ministry of Justice
    1. Japan is a democratic country guided by the rule of law. There has been a good and close dialogue with the authorities of Japan during the processing of the case.
    2. Based on the correspondence with the authorities of Japan regarding this matter, the Danish Ministry of Justice has assessed that it cannot be assumed with the necessary degree of certainty, that this would be the case.
  2. Julie Stage
    1. He is free. We've just been informed by the Ministry of Justice, he's not going to be extradited.
  3. FR
    Francois Zimeray
    1. Japan tried to silence a man whose only crime was to denounce the illegality of the industrial massacre disguised as scientific research.
  4. FR
    Jean Tamalet
    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
    1. We will now have to challenge the red notice and the Japanese arrest warrant, to ensure that Captain Paul Watson can once again travel the world in complete peace of mind, and never experience a similar episode again.
  5. CA
    Paul Watson
    Captain Paul Watson Foundation
    1. I know that if I get sent to Japan, I'm not coming home.
    2. My position is that you prepare for the worst and hope for the best, that's all you can do. One day I would feel confident and then others, well, you know, Japan was putting a lot of economic pressure on Denmark. Fortunately, Denmark has got a good record on human rights.
    3. All the evidence shows that I wasn't even there when this offence supposedly took place.
    4. My time in jail has at least served the purpose of focusing attention on Japan's illegal whaling operations and the added benefit of focusing attention of the killing of dolphins on the Danish Faroe islands. So in that sense it was a successful campaign.

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sources

  1. 1.BBC
  2. 2.The Guardian
  3. 3.France 24
  4. 4.The New York Times
  5. 5.Le Monde
  6. 6.ABC News (Australia)
  7. 7.South China Morning Post
  8. 8.Agence France-Presse
  9. 9.Guardian
  10. 10.Reuters

perspectives

  1. 1.French Foreign Policy
  2. 2.Japanese Foreign Policy
  3. 3.Biodiversity
  4. 4.Whales

countries

  1. 1.DenmarkDK
  2. 2.FranceFR
  3. 3.United KingdomGB
  4. 4.GreenlandGL
  5. 5.IrelandIE
  6. 6.JapanJP

organizations

  1. 1.Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
  2. 2.Captain Paul Watson Foundation
  3. 3.Interpol
  4. 4.Getty Images
  5. 5.Danish Ministry of Justice
  6. 6.Greenland PoliceGL
  7. 7.Greenpeace
  8. 8.International Whaling Commission

persons

  1. 1.Paul WatsonCA
  2. 2.Julie Stage
  3. 3.Peter HummelgaardDK
  4. 4.Emmanuel MacronFR
  5. 5.Francois ZimerayFR
  6. 6.Jane GoodallGB
  7. 7.John Paul DeJoria
  8. 8.Takeshi IwayaJP
  9. 9.Brigitte Bardot
  10. 10.Guillaume Collet
  11. 11.Jean TamaletFR
  12. 12.Pierce Brosnan

technicals

  1. 1.Shonan Maru 2
  2. 2.Whale Wars
  3. 3.Pacific Ocean
  4. 4.Antarctica
  5. 5.Faroe Islands