US-Canadian founder of Sea Shepherd was arrested in Greenland after Japan issued international warrant

Denmark has rejected a Japanese request to extradite the anti-whaling activist Paul Watson over criminal charges dating back more than a decade, a Danish lawyer representing Watson said on Tuesday.

The US-Canadian Watson, 74, the founder of the Sea Shepherd conservationist group and of the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, was apprehended by police in Greenland when his ship docked in the Danish autonomous territory in July.