Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson freed from prison in Denmark and won’t be extradited to Japan

LONDON (AP) — Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was freed from prison in Denmark on Tuesday and he will not be extradited to Japan, his lawyer told The Associated Press.

Japan had asked Denmark to extradite Watson, who had been in custody in Greenland since his arrest this summer under a Japanese warrant.

Watson, a Canadian American citizen, is a former head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose high seas confrontations with whaling vessels have drawn support from celebrities and even featured in the reality television series “Whale Wars.”