The American-Canadian environmental activist Paul Watson, a figure in the defense of whales, is now free to travel abroad. The request for arrest issued by Japan was indeed suspended by Interpol, the NGO Sea Shepherd France said on Tuesday.
“Paul Watson has just been informed by the Interpol file control commission that the red notice issued against it by Japan has been suspended from the Interpol information system,” the ocean defense NGO announces in a statement.
“All of the States and other member organizations of Interpol therefore no longer have access to it, until the Commission, which will render its final decision after its June session, has carried out the full examination of the case. The freedom of movement of the captain has meanwhile been restored, “she adds.
“All of Interpol’s member states, or 196 countries, must now comply with this decision and ignore the notoriously unfounded Japanese arrest request,” according to Sea Shepherd France.
Paul Watson was detained in Greenland for five months, before Denmark rejected an extradition request from Japan, which accused him of being co -responsible for damages and injuries on a Japanese whale ship in 2010 as part of a campaign led by Sea Shepherd. He was able to return to Paris, where he has lived for 10 years on December 20.
