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Interpol has lifted the arrest warrant for Paul Watson
The red notice issued at the request of Japan against the American-Canadian environmental activist is canceled.
Paul Watson dressed in a tuxedo, arrives at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for the screening of the film “Highest 2 Lowest”.
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The Interpol file control commission on Tuesday raised the red notice aimed at the arrest, at the request of Japan, of the American-Canadian ecologist activist Paul Watsona figure of the defense of the whales, told AFP Me William Julié, one of his lawyers.
Interpol estimated that this measure, which had been suspended in April, was “disproportionate”, according to him. Paul Watson75, was detained in Greenland for five months, before Denmark rejected An extradition request from Japanwhich accuses him of being co -responsible for damage and injuries aboard a Japanese whale ship in 2010 as part of a campaign led by the NGO Sea Shepherd.
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