NUUK, Greenland, July 21 – The former co-founder of marine conservation Greenpeace, founder of Sea Shepherd and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, Captain Paul F. Watson, was arrested upon arrival in Nuuk, Greenland.
Watson’s flagship, M/Y John Paul Dejoria, with 25 volunteer crew, docked for fuel en route to the Northwest Passage to intercept Japan’s new whale-killing slaughterhouse, Kangei Maru, in the North Pacific.
“We were here, and arrested Paul, due to an international arrest order from Japan,” stated the leader of the Danish federal police boarding party at the site of the arrest. The crew were given no further notice.
The arrest is linked to a former Interpol Red Notice for Watson’s previous anti-whaling interventions in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, Antarctica. Japan’s phony Antarctic research whaling programme was forbidden in 2014 by a ruling of The International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Japan’s Kangei Maru is the world’s only whaling fleet mothership. With its extra fossil fuel tanks for a longer range, it’s faster than the Nisshin Maru, more effective and more deadly.
In late November, the Kangei Maru will illegally commence commercial whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
The Japanese government refuses to abide by the ICJ ruling. Hence, Japan is a rogue state.
The whales are biogeochemical farmers. They are vital in circulating nutrients that are resituating the phytoplankton, the basis of the marine food web. It is unacceptable to murder whales in the midst of the climate and extinction crises, especially since the whales are superb climate solvers.
Will Watson be extradited to Japan in the coming days? This much we know: He has spent his entire lifetime defending marine life, and no matter what the outcome from the Danish ambush (21 July 2024) – Captain Paul Watson is a modern-day hero – a protector of our brethren and sistren, the animals. Godspeed Captain Paul!
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Japan’s warrant to arrest Paul Watson isn’t legal. So if Denmark wants to look foolish to the whole world, they can try to extradite him to Japan. For starters, to do so would be a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.