US-Canadian founder of Sea Shepherd was arrested in Greenland after Japan issued international warrant
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US-Canadian Watson, 74, founder of the Sea Shepherd conservationist group and of the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, has now been released from detention in the“Paul is free!!!,” Sea Shepherd France wrote on social media platform X. Japan had issued an international warrant for Watson’s arrest, seeking him on charges of breaking into a Japanese vessel in the Antarctic Ocean in 2010, obstructing its business and causing injury as well as property damage.
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