The detention of Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson has been extended by a court in Greenland as the decision over whether to extradite the anti-whaling activist to Japan drags on. The 73-year-old US-Canadian was arrested in Nuuk in July on a Japanese arrest warrant, with the country accusing him of damaging a whaling ship and injuring a crew member. Watson's lawyers insist he is innocent and allies say Japan is out for "revenge."
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00:30So far, the only public declarations made by the minister were that he was going to
00:41follow the law and basically if the conditions are met to extradite Paul, then he will extradite
00:50him and if they are not met, he will not extradite him.
00:54So we do know that the conditions are not met for an extradition, actually the conditions
00:58are not even met for him to stay in jail.
01:16This is a question of revenge that we have a country like Japan that has been acting
01:21as an eco-terrorist in Antarctica and that is tracking down a whistleblower and an activist
01:30that has been enforcing the law and the important thing also to understand is that Paul has
01:36been doing the job that the governments, all the governments who signed the global moratorium
01:41on whaling, all the governments who signed the international sanctuary should have been