{"id":65782,"date":"2024-07-22T10:17:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T01:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/22\/paul-watson-arrested-greenland-sea-shepherd-founder-and-anti-whaling-activist"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:17:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T01:17:47","slug":"paul-watson-sea-shepherd-founder-and-anti-whaling-activist-arrested-in-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65782","title":{"rendered":"Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist arrested in Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The co-founder of Greenpeace will be taken to court where a decision will be made about his extradition to Japan, police say<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Prominent anti-whaling environmentalist Paul Watson has been arrested in Greenland on Sunday under an international arrest warrant issued by Japan, police and his foundation said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Greenland police said Watson, who founded Sea Shepherd and was a co-founder of Greenpeace, had been arrested after arriving in Nuuk on the ship John Paul DeJoria. He will be brought before a district court where police will request his detention \u201cbefore a decision is made on whether he should be extradited to Japan\u201d, they added.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/22\/paul-watson-arrested-greenland-sea-shepherd-founder-and-anti-whaling-activist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The co-founder of Greenpeace will be taken to court where a decision will be made about his extradition to Japan, police sayProminent anti-whaling environmentalist Paul Watson has been arrested in Greenland on Sunday under an international arrest warra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[634,88,2462],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greenland","category-japan","category-whaling"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65802,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65782\/revisions\/65802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}