Anti-whaling activist to learn if he will be extradited to Japan within 14 days

Paul Watson has spent four months in Greenland’s Anstalten prison since his arrest in July. Photograph: Inesa Matuliauskaite/The Observer

The anti-whaling activist Paul Watson will learn within 14 days whether he will be extradited to Japan, a court has been told, as his four-month imprisonment in Greenland was extended.

At a hearing in Nuuk, the capital of the autonomous territory of Denmark, the judge Lars-Christian Sinkbæk said that Watson, who turned 74 on Monday, would continue to be detained in a high security prison pending a decision from the Danish government. Watson’s legal team immediately submitted an appeal to Greenland’s high court.