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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

the reason he landed in prison this time is due to him protesting against internationally recognised legal, non-commercial whaling, a whole slander campaign.

I think you might be conflating the reason he was arrested and how he was found. The reason he was arrested was because Japan had a man interpol red notice put out on him.

"The police were acting on an Interpol red notice issued by Japan. Tokyo was seeking his extradition on charges relating to the alleged boarding of the Japanese whaling ship Shōnan Maru 2 in the Southern Ocean in February 2010. The charges, including one of assault, carried a sentence of up to 15 years in jail."

Legality doesn't dictate morality, especially in international law.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Yep there's no charges against him on the Faroer, mostly because they don't let him into their waters so he can't really do any damage, but they're still pissed because of that slander campaign. He wasn't in hiding as such as many many countries didn't care about the red notice, much less actively hunting him down, but then the Faroer got wind that he was heading to Nuuk and arranged a SWAT surprise for him.

I do wonder whether there were some diplomatic shenanigans going on behind the scenes. Why wouldn't Japan give assurances that time served in Greenland would be subtracted from whatever he has to serve in Japan? Silly thing to blow an extradition over.