Japan Issues Arrest Warrant For Sea Shepherd’s Paul Watson

Japan Issues Arrest Warrant For Sea Shepherd’s Paul Watson 

Is Japan getting desperate? 

Earlier today, the nation’s Coast Guard obtained an arrest warrant for Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson for ordering volunteers to interfere with whaling operations. They also requested that he be added to Interpol on suspicion of assault and obstruction of business, reports said. 

Of course Watson doesn’t deny the allegations — in fact, he’s surprised its taken so long to come to this.

“It does seem amazing that it has taken five years for the Japanese Coast Guard to discover that Sea Shepherd volunteers have obstructed illegal Japanese whaling operations,” he wrote Friday.

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