Topic: Peter Bethune

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There's a lot to be said for an anti-climax. . . All going well, this is how we will see off Japan's disgraceful Southern Ocean whaling programme...
Anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune returned to New Zealand on Saturday, vowing he would never give up his fight to stop Japanese whaling.Bethune was deported from Japan after receiving a suspended two-year sentence for obstructing Japanese whaling in the Antarctic Ocean.The ...
New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune was deported from Japan on Friday after receiving a suspended two-year sentence for obstructing Japanese whaling in the Antarctic Ocean.Bethune, 45, was sent home on an Air New Zealand flight which left Tokyo's Narita ...
A New Zealand anti-whaling activist was handed a suspended two-year prison term in Japan on Wednesday for offences relating to clashes with Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters."The defendant is sentenced to two years' imprisonment, suspended for five years from the day ...
Anti-whaling boss on Interpol wanted list over disruption of Antarctic whale hunts, Japan saysThe leader of a U.S.-based anti-whaling organization is now on an international wanted list for allegedly masterminding the group's disruption of Japanese whale hunts in the ...
A Japanese whaler Friday called for "severe punishment" for a New Zealand activist on trial for injuring him with a rancid butter stink bomb during high-seas clashes in Antarctic waters.Takashi Kominami, 24, said he suffered facial chemical burns from the butyric ...
An anti-whaling activist from New Zealand who boarded a Japanese harpoon ship in Antarctic waters pleaded guilty on Thursday in a Tokyo court to four charges but denied assault using rancid butter.Peter Bethune, 45, of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, was ...
An anti-whaling activist of the US-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society who boarded a Japanese harpoon ship in Antarctic waters this year went on trial in Japan Thursday.New Zealander Peter Bethune, 45, was detained by whalers more than three months ago after ...
Anti-whaling activist pleads guilty to 4 of 5 charges in Tokyo trial for disrupting whale huntAn anti-whaling activist from New Zealand who boarded a Japanese whaling ship as part of a protest in February pleaded guilty Thursday to charges including trespassing and ...
An anti-whaling activist of the US-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society went on trial in Japan Thursday on charges stemming from clashes with harpoon ships in Antarctic waters this year.New Zealander Peter Bethune, 45, was detained by whalers more than three months ...