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| Subject: Well fuck that politicized decision: Whaling protester gets suspended jail term in Japan Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:01 am | |
| A New Zealand activist who boarded a Japanese whaling vessel in an attempt to stop an annual whale hunt was given a two-year suspended sentence, a Japanese court said Wednesday.
Regular attempts by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a hardline anti-whaling group, to block the annual whale hunt have sparked anger in Japan, where the government says whaling is an important cultural tradition.
Pete Bethune, a former captain of the Sea Shepherd's high-tech vessel called the Ady Gil, was indicted in April on several criminal counts, including one for carrying a knife when he boarded the vessel in what the activists said was an attempt to conduct a citizen's arrest.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=whaling-protester-gets-su |
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