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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Camille BAS-WOHLERT

Whaling Activist Watson Freed After Denmark Rejects Extradition

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrives for a court hearing in Nuuk, Greenland, on October 2, 2024. A Greenland court on Wednesday extended the detention of Watson for three more weeks, pending a decision on his extradition to Japan, where he is wanted over a clash with whalers. (Credit: AFP)

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was on Tuesday released from detention in Greenland, after Denmark decided to refuse a Japanese extradition request over a 2010 clash with whalers.

Watson has been held since July when his ship docked in Nuuk -- the capital of the Danish autonomous territory -- on a 2012 Japanese warrant, which accuses him of causing damage to a whaling ship and injuring a whaler.

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