Environmental activist Paul Watson managed to be arrested in Greenland for about half a year.
Denmark will not extradite the US-Canadian environmental activist Paul Watson To Japan, said Watson’s lawyer on Tuesday. Watson has been detained in Greenland since July on a Japanese arrest warrant.
Japan accuses Watson, among other things, of damaging a whaling ship and injuring a member of its crew off Antarctica in 2010.
According to the documents obtained by the news agency AFP, the Danish Ministry of Justice’s decision was influenced, among other things, by the fact that 14 years have already passed since the case, the time Watson spent in custody and the general nature of the case.
According to the lawyer, Watson will be released and he can leave Greenland.
– Japan tried to silence a man whose only crime was condemning industrial mass murder disguised as scientific research, said a member of Watson’s legal team Francois Zimeray.
Watson is the founder of the Sea Shepherd conservation organization.