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Greenland arrests anti-whaling activist Paul Watson
Police remove the Sea Shepherd Society founder from the boat and take him into Nuuk Harbour.
Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson arrested in Greenland.
Photo: Marcus Schreiber (Keystone)
Greenland police say they have arrested environmentalist and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan for the 73-year-old Canadian-American citizen, police said on Sunday. The attack took place in Nuuk, the capital of the autonomous Danish region. Watson will be brought before a local court, which will be asked to detain him pending a decision on whether to extradite him to Japan.
Watson’s foundation, the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, said a dozen police officers boarded the boat, which was carrying 25 volunteer crew members to intercept a Japanese whaling ship in the North Pacific, and took the activist away in handcuffs.
The arrest is believed to be linked to Watson’s earlier intervention in whaling in Antarctica. “We call on the Danish government to release Captain Watson and not respond to this politically motivated demand,” said Rocky McLean, one of the foundation’s directors.
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