Interpol takes anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson off its most-wanted list

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Source: Associated Press

Interpol takes anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson off its most-wanted list

By ANGELA CHARLTON and JAMEY KEATEN
Updated 1:02 PM EDT, July 22, 2025

PARIS (AP) — Interpol said Tuesday it was removing a most-wanted designation for anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson, who is sought by Japan over an encounter with a whaling ship and who was jailed for several months last year in Greenland.

Watson, 74, is a former head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose high seas confrontations with whaling vessels have drawn support from celebrities and featured in the reality television series “Whale Wars.”

Japan wants his extradition over an encounter with a Japanese whaling research ship in 2010, when he was accused of obstructing the crew’s official duties by ordering the captain of his ship to throw explosives at the whaling ship. He and his team deny those allegations.

Starting in 2012, Watson had been subject to a “red notice” of Interpol, the Lyon, France-based international police body. A red notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending legal action, based on a warrant from the judicial authorities in the requesting country, in this case Japan.

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1. Good. Many years ago, I was a supporter of Sea Shepherd..got newsletters from them long before email.

I still believe in their cause but I’m retired now and my budget doesn’t allow for donations to most of those I supported. I supported Greenpeace at one time but I liked the more aggressive Sea Shepherd so I stuck with them..looking back, I was so idealistic and wanted to change the world.