2024-07-22 20:55:36
Japan, along with Norway and Iceland, is one of the last three countries in the world that still engages in commercial whaling.
Video posted by CPWF on social media showed police handcuffing Watson on the deck of the John Paul DeJoria vessel, placing him in a police car and taking him away.
He was then brought before a judge who ruled on his detention pending a decision to extradite him to Japan, Greenland police said in a statement on Sunday.
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Greenland’s Nuuk District Court “decided to detain Mr. Paul Watson until August 15 and appeal to the Greenland High Court,” Greenland Court Judge Steger said in a message to AFP.
A final decision on whether to extradite Watson will be made by the Danish Ministry of Justice, according to a police news release.
François Zimeray, one of Watson’s lawyers, told AFP: “Japan’s arrest warrant is illegal. It violates all international treaties on human rights.” He believes that if extradition is , Denmark will “violate its own constitution and constitution.”
Paul Watson founded Sea Shepherd and CPWF. His strategy of directly confronting whalers at sea was controversial.
According to CPWF, he was arrested on an Interpol Red Notice due to a previous operation in Antarctica that disappeared, indicating that the warrant had been withdrawn.
“It appears that Japan kept the notification secret to facilitate Paul’s travel and arrest,” the foundation wrote in a news release.
Brigitte Bardot, the former French actress whose foundation is dedicated to animal causes, estimated in an interview with Le Parisien that “the Japanese government… has triggered a global manhunt for Paul Watson” ”, the latter “ fell down ”. Falling into a trap.”
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“We have to do everything we can to save Paul,” the star said.
The Japanese government did not react to the arrests.
factory ship
Paul Watson’s base ship was heading for the Northwest Passage – a waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago – as part of his mission to intercept the Yasui Maru, a recently built Japanese factory ship in the North Pacific. part.
Japan views whaling as a “food security” issue for a resource-poor country and imports large amounts of animal meat.
But its consumption has dropped to about 2,000 tons per year, compared with 200 times higher in the 1960s.
Japan withdrew from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 2019 to escape a global moratorium on whaling.
So it again hunted whales openly for commercial reasons but restricted itself to its own waters.
CPWF suspects Japan hopes to resume high seas whaling in the Southern Ocean and North Pacific by 2025.
She believed the reactivation of the Red Notice against Mr Watson was “politically motivated and coincides with the launch of the new factory ship”.
Mr Watson is wanted by Japan for causing damage and injury in two incidents in 2010 against Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters.
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