Environmentalists around Australia and the world are celebrating Denmark’s decision not to extradite Captain Paul Watson from a Danish prison in Greenland to Japan, former Greens leader Bob Brown said in Tasmania last night.
‘I’m delighted with Paul’s release from that threat, following the worldwide response to his arrest on a trumped-up international warrant engineered by Japan’s bloody whale-slaughtering industry,’ said Bob Brown.
‘The Japanese authorities have never forgiven him for leading the campaign to end their illegal whaling in Antarctic waters. Denmark has wisely decided to go with global opinion rather than the whale butchers in Tokyo.’
Bob Brown Foundation led the Australian campaign for Watson’s release with protests outside the Danish embassy in Canberra and in Hobart and letters to Queen Mary and Prime Minister Mitte.
‘It is now incumbent on Canberra to follow the lead of France and assure Watson that he will not be arrested if he visits our country again,’ said Dr Brown.
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