Denmark will not extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson to Japan, his lawyer says (www.reuters.com)
from oce@jlai.lu to world@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 11:26
https://jlai.lu/post/13357816

COPENHAGEN, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Denmark has rejected a Japanese request to extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson over criminal charges dating back more than a decade

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thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 12:07 next collapse

Cool

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 12:30 next collapse

So maybe they can let him go now ?

Oh, apparently they did. Good.

perestroika@lemm.ee on 17 Dec 20:09 collapse

Nice to hear. I haven’t been following the situation, but there was a petition in favour of letting him go already in spring.

Saleh@feddit.org on 17 Dec 12:40 collapse

I dont get the hardons for whaling like this in places like Japan. If Inuits or other native people are whaling because it actually preserves a hundreds of year old tradition and feeds their village, fine whatever. But industrial whaling from modern ships has nothing culturally important to preserve, nor is it remotely necessary for feeding the Japanese.

oce@jlai.lu on 17 Dec 13:14 collapse

Almost nobody cares about whale meat in Japan, it’s a small nationalist elite’s thing.

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world on 18 Dec 12:09 collapse

Aka, the only people who vote in large numbers. Work culture there grinds you hard that most people can’t engage with politics.