NZ anti-whaling activist indicted
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April 3, 2010, Saturday
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PROSECUTORS yesterday indicted an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on charges that could lead to prison term after he boarded a Japanese harpoon boat to protest the ship's whale-hunting expedition in Antarctic seas.
Peter Bethune, 44, had jumped aboard the Shonan Maru 2 in February during the annual face-off between whalers and their opponents with the stated goal of making a citizen's arrest of the captain, while handing over a US$3 million bill for the destruction of a Sea Shepherd protest ship a month earlier.
He was held on board and arrested on March 12 as soon as the ship returned to Japan.
Yesterday, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office charged Bethune of the US-based group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society with five criminal counts: assault, illegal possession of a knife, destruction of property, obstruction of business and trespassing.
Assault and business obstruction each carries a prison term of up to 15 years or a fine up to 500,000 yen (US$5,340). His initial trespassing allegation can bring a prison term of up to three years or a fine up to 100,000 yen.
Peter Bethune, 44, had jumped aboard the Shonan Maru 2 in February during the annual face-off between whalers and their opponents with the stated goal of making a citizen's arrest of the captain, while handing over a US$3 million bill for the destruction of a Sea Shepherd protest ship a month earlier.
He was held on board and arrested on March 12 as soon as the ship returned to Japan.
Yesterday, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office charged Bethune of the US-based group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society with five criminal counts: assault, illegal possession of a knife, destruction of property, obstruction of business and trespassing.
Assault and business obstruction each carries a prison term of up to 15 years or a fine up to 500,000 yen (US$5,340). His initial trespassing allegation can bring a prison term of up to three years or a fine up to 100,000 yen.
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