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Activists held hostage

Jan 15, 2008, 22:05

This sounds like an unpleasant turn of events:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/whale-watch/activists-held-hostage/2008/01/15/1200159450223.html

and:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/16/2139273.htm?section=justin

I hope this gets some coverage in the UK press. I can't see that they'll be kept against their will for long, but the fact that it happened at all is pretty cruddy. But I guess, being tied to the mast for a few hours in sub zero temperatures is better than being hacked apart for 'research purposes'. Apparently the whalers are justifying their actions on the grounds that the activists are technically pirates.

Gah!

EDIT:

They are to be released:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23060519-26103,00.html

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whaling and the wretched Japanese (Rhiannon)

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