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In an interesting change of policy, the Japanese police have finally gotten around to putting out arrest warrants for three environmental activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, for their interference in a whale “research” hunt back in...
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Japanese police are pursuing arrest warrants against three activists from the U.S.-based animal rights group Sea Shepherd for allegedly attacking Japanese whaling ships...
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In this Feb. 12, 2007 file photo released by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the ship, Robert Hunter, bottom, collides with the Japanese ship Kaiko Maru in the water of Antarctic. Japanese police are pursuing arrest warrants against three activists...
