With the International Whaling Commission poised to return to this sick, cowardly activity, conservation hero Captain Pete Bethune is on trial in Tokyo and is being held in a maximum-security detention centre. The charges are trespassing and property damage. Pete boarded the Japanese whaling vessel Shonan Maru 2 in February to protest the sinking of the Sea Shepard's vessel Andy Gil as well as Japan's illegal whaling operations.
His actions did cause the Shonan Maru 2 to prematurely withdraw from the illegal whaling operation in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
Sea Shepherd's Seattle-based law firm, Harris & Moure, will have two of its lawyers in Tokyo during the trial both to assist Bethune's Japanese defence team and to explain Sea Shepherd's position regarding the trial and Japan's illegal whaling operations.
Once again we applaud this man's brave stand against the perverse horror of whaling.
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