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Greenland police said they apprehended veteran environmental activist and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan. Watson, a 73-year-old Canadian ...
Mr Watson, known for disrupting Japanese whaling operations, was arrested while refuelling his ship John Paul DeJoria. He faced potential extradition on charges related to the 2010 whaling ...
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson will remain in detention in Greenland after he was arrested in the Danish autonomous territory last month, while Denmark decides whether to ...
Paul Watson was born in Toronto, the oldest child of Anthony Joseph Watson and Annamarie Larsen, and grew up in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, along with two younger sisters and three younger brothers. As a child he was a member of the Kindness Club , which he has credited with teaching him to "respect and defend animals". [ 23 ]
According to his foundation, Watson's current ship, the M/Y John Paul DeJoria, was due to sail through the Northwest Passage to the North Pacific to confront a newly built Japanese factory whaling ship, “a murderous enemy devoid of compassion and empathy hell bent on destroying the most intelligent self-aware sentient beings in the sea."
Anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson arrested in Greenland. He faces possible extradition to Japan; US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva convicted of spreading false news about Russian army, court records say; Harris looks to lock up the Democratic nomination after Biden steps aside, reordering the 2024 race
In characterising testimony for the suit, the arbitrator was particularly harsh on Paul Watson; finding the Sea Shepherd founder in some instances to "be highly evasive, internally contradictory, or at odds with his own prior written statements, and in certain areas simply lacking the basic indicia of genuineness that instinctively inspires ...
Paul Joseph Watson was born on 24 May 1982 at Jessop Hospital in Sheffield to Philip and Hazel Watson. In a 2016 interview for a student newspaper in Sheffield, UK, Watson said he grew up on a council estate with few financial resources, and that by 18, he was teetotal and exercising three hours per day. [17]