{"id":65942,"date":"2024-07-31T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T01:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/31\/sea-shepherd-founder-anti-whaling-activist-paul-watson-arrest-japan-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2024-07-31T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T01:46:47","slug":"anti-whaling-activist-paul-watson-could-face-up-to-15-years-prison-in-japan-if-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65942","title":{"rendered":"Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson could face up to 15 years\u2019 prison in Japan if convicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, has been arrested on an international warrant and is facing charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespass<\/p>\n<p>Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson could face up to 15 years in prison in Japan, after the founder of US-based group Sea Shepherd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/22\/paul-watson-arrested-greenland-sea-shepherd-founder-and-anti-whaling-activist\">was arrested on an international warrant<\/a> in Greenland earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Japan Coast Guard, Watson, who is also a co-founder of Greenpeace, is facing charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespass, after he was arrested on an international warrant in Greenland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/31\/sea-shepherd-founder-anti-whaling-activist-paul-watson-arrest-japan-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, has been arrested on an international warrant and is facing charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespassAnti-whaling activist Paul Watson could face up to 15 years in prison in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4346,"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":[41,456,635,634,88,2462],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-conservation","category-denmark","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\/65942","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\/4346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65943,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65942\/revisions\/65943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}