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Anti-whaling Activist Watson Says Greenland Arrest 'Political'

Watson is known for radical tactics including confrontations with whaling ships at sea (Credit: AFP)

US-Canadian environmental activist Paul Watson considers his detention in Greenland and Japan's extradition request to be political, his campaigning group Sea Shepherd said Thursday.

Lamya Essemlali, president of the organisation, who visits him "almost every day" in jail in Nuuk, capital of the autonomous Danish territory, told AFP he was "very clear about the situation".

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