Topic: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Japan targets anti-whaling chief for arrest

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's coastguard has obtained an arrest warrant for the head of radical anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd for allegedly ordering members of the group to obstruct Japan's whale hunt, domestic media said on Friday. The move comes as the International ...
Japan plans to seek an international arrest warrant against the leader of the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd over tense high-seas clashes, the nation's public broadcaster said Friday. The Japan Coast Guard has obtained an arrest warrant in Tokyo against 59-year-old Canadian Paul ...
Japan charges New Zealand whaling activist with assault, trespassingProsecutors Friday indicted an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on charges that could lead to a yearslong prison term after he boarded a Japanese harpoon boat to protest the ship's whale-hunting expedition in Antarctic ...

Japan indicts NZ anti-whaling activist

Japan indicted on Friday a New Zealand anti-whaling activist who boarded a harpoon ship on charges including trespass and assault, the latest chapter in a long-running battle between environmentalists and Japanese whalers. The activist from the US-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society boarded ...
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The Japan Coast Guard inspected a Japanese whaling ship Saturday with a New Zealand anti-whaling activist who is under arrest for trespassing on the vessel in the Antarctic Ocean last month.Peter Bethune, a member of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, boarded ...
New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune, who is under arrest in Japan for trespass, is reported to be well and in good spirits, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Saturday.Bethune, who has been in custody since he boarded a Japanese harpoon ship in ...
Japan arrests New Zealand anti-whaling activist for illegally boarding Japanese vessel Japan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese whaling.Peter ...
A New Zealand anti-whaling activist was arrested in Japan Friday after a harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month docked in Tokyo, greeted by police and nationalist protesters.Peter Bethune, of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), was engaged in ...
Japan's Coast Guard obtained an arrest warrant Thursday for an anti-whaling activist who has been held aboard a Japanese harpoon ship since boarding it in the Antarctic last month, press reports said.New Zealander Peter Bethune, a member of the militant Sea Shepherd ...
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