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Whale of an activist: 'Entity not complying with international law is not Paul Watson but Japan'

A Greenland court decided Wednesday to hold US-Canadian anti-whaling activist Paul Watson an additional 28 days pending a decision on his extradition to Japan, an anti-whaling group said. Watson was detained in Nuuk, the capital of the autonomous Danish territory, in July on a 2012 Japanese arrest warrant that accuses him of damaging one of its whaling ships in the Antarctic in 2010 and injuring a whaler. For an inside look at the on-going legal fight against Japan's extradition request, gaining worldwide attention, FRANCE 24's François Picard is joined by International Criminal and Human Rights Lawyer William Julié. He is part of the legal team representing Paul Watson.

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