Whaling activist Watson freed after Denmark rejects extradition

[Article] Le Danemark rejette la demande d'extradition japonaise à l'encontre du militant anti-pêche à la baleine Paul Watson.


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Whaling activist Watson freed after Denmark rejects extradition.
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was on Tuesday released from detention in Greenland, after Denmark decided to refuse a Japanese extradition request over a 2010 clash with whalers.
Watson has been held since July when his ship docked...
This article was published Wednesday, 18 December, 2024 by AFP
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Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrives for a court hearing in Nuuk, Greenland, on October 2, 2024. A Greenland court on Wednesday extended the detention of Watson for three more weeks, pending a decision on his extradition to Japan, where he is wanted over a clash with whalers. For the third time since the 73-year-old US-Canadian campaigner's arrest in late July in Nuuk, the capital of the Danish autonomous territory, prosecutors had asked that Watson's detention be extended, as the legal review of Japan's extradition request drags on.


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