We won! Paul Watson is free. Denmark refused his extradition to Japan yesterday and Paul was able to get out of prison after 149 days in custody.
This victory is yours! It is thanks to the incredible mobilization of citizens that we achieved this happy outcome. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for massively signing this petition and for relaying all our actions. Sometimes the good guys win in the end...
I wish you a wonderful holiday season and a merry Christmas.
Hugo
Captain Paul Watson, founder of the NGO Sea Shepherd, was arrested by Danish police on Sunday, July 21, in Greenland, while stopping with his boat to refuel. Paul Watson and his crew were heading to the North Pacific to stop the Japanese ship Kangei Maru from killing whales
.Paul Watson is now in custody and is at risk of being extradited to Japan, since it was this country that issued an arrest warrant against him in 2012 for “conspiracy to board”. In reality, the Japanese authorities accuse him of having intervened for years between whaling vessels and whales
.Thanks to the action of Paul Watson and his teams, around 5000 cetaceans were able to avoid harpoons. From the start, the captain took radical action, but it always remained peaceful, and which served above all to enforce international law. Indeed, whaling has been banned worldwide since the moratorium in 1986. Only three countries decided to continue this shameful practice illegally: Japan, Norway and Iceland
.We are deeply outraged that a man who dedicated his life to the protection of endangered animals is today arrested at the request of a state that does not respect the law. Japan uses the Interpol “Red Notice”, originally created to track down international criminals, to crack down
on an opponent.Extradition of Paul Watson to Japan would be a death sentence for him. Aged 73 and the father of three children, he was languishing there in prison
.past year, the captain has been living in France, where he continues his fight alongside Sea Shepherd France. He travels all over our country to give lectures and tirelessly defend the oceans. As such, we ask the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, to contact the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, to demand the immediate release of
Paul Watson.Citizen, political and media mobilization is urgent to prevent Japan from silencing the main defender of whales forever.
First signatories: Nagui, Brigitte Bardot, Stéphane Bardot, Stéphane Bern, Stéphane Bern, Nicola Sirkis, Shaka Ponk, Marc Simoncini, Louis Schweitzer, Louis Schweitzer, Hugo Clément...
