Paul Watson, the well-known anti-whaling activist, has been released from prison and will not be extradited to Japan.
Paul Watson is free. The activist had been arrested last July 21 in Nuuk, Greenlandon the basis of an international arrest warrant issued by the Japanese authorities. The founder of the NGO Sea Shepherd he has remained detained until today in the “green land”, where his ship had stopped for supplies.
“After five months, it’s nice to be out and it’s nice to see that they won’t send me to Japan, and I’ll be able to come home for Christmas”, declared the environmentalist founder of the NGO Sea Shepherd in the video published on social media upon leaving Nuuk prison, Greenland.
Watson also said the months of detention were “an extension of the campaign” against whaling, an activity to which he has dedicated his life – along with protecting the oceans – one action at a time. Over the years, the 74-year-old American-Canadian has sabotaged, rammed and sunk dozens of commercial fishing boats. Tokyo accuses him of being responsible for damage and injuries aboard a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic in 2010.
Watson has always maintained that he never hurt anyone. “My real crime was to expose their illegal operations”Watson said upon his release after Denmark’s refusal to extradite him to Japan
