Greenpeace activists arrested over peaceful 'whale graveyard'
Publisher: Ian Morgan
Published: 21/06/2006 - 09:29:20 AM
Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship A peaceful Greenpeace protest was abruptly broken up by the authorities, who arrested 10 activists and ship crew from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.
The protestors were attempting to highlight the number of whales killed during the last whaling season in the so-called Southern Oceans Whale Sanctuary.
Yesterday's protest involved activists and crew from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, which had been barred from St Kitts waters when it arrived last weekend prior to the start of the IWC meeting.
They arrived via inflatable boats to the beach in North Frigate Bay, St Kitts and were attempting to create a symbolic "whale graveyard" display using 863 cardboard whale tails - one to represent each of the estimated whales caught by Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean 'Whale Sanctuary' during the last year.
However, the protestors were stopped and arrested by the police shortly after coming ashore, and currently are being held at the Basseterre Police Station in St Kitts awaiting further information on charges.
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