Source: France 24 [French state media]
“A Greenland court on Wednesday extended the detention of anti-whaling activist Paul 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. … He was arrested on July 21 when his ship, the John Paul DeJoria, docked to refuel in Nuuk on its way to ‘intercept’ a new Japanese whaling factory vessel in the North Pacific, according to the CPWF. He was detained on a 2012 Japanese arrest warrant, which accuses him of causing damage to a whaling ship in 2010 and injuring a Japanese crew member with a stink bomb intended to disrupt the whalers’ activities.” (10/02/24)