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Paul Watson, Anti-Whaling Activist, Is Detained in Greenland [1]

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Date: 2024-07-22

Paul Watson, a prominent anti-whaling activist, was arrested in Greenland on Sunday and may be extradited to Japan, where he is being sought on an international arrest warrant, Mr. Watson’s organization said.

Mr. Watson, a Canadian American activist who founded Sea Shepherd, a nonprofit marine conservation organization known for confrontational tactics, was taken into custody by the Danish police in Nuuk, Greenland, immediately after docking his boat, the John Paul DeJoria.

“We were immediately boarded by a SWAT team and Danish police, who wasted no time in cuffing Paul Watson, our founder, and arresting him on a decades-old red notice at the request of Japan,” the boat’s captain, Locky MacLean, said on a video posted on the official X page for the Captain Paul Watson Foundation. A red notice is an international arrest alert issued by Interpol.

Mr. Watson, who founded Sea Shepherd after a contentious departure from Greenpeace, an international environmental conservation network he also helped found, is known for leading seafaring campaigns that directly interrupt whale hunting, shark finning and other contested maritime practices.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/world/europe/paul-watson-whaling-arrest-greenland.html

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