The Japanese government on Monday approved of Tokyo police's efforts to seek arrest warrants for three environmentalists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for their violent interference with Japan's whaling activities.
It is natural that the police seek to arrest the environmental activists as they resorted to violence and threatened the lives of those involved, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura ata press conference.
Earlier Monday the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department sought arrest warrants from the Tokyo District Court for the three activists on the allegation that they halted Kaiko Maru, a ship belonging to Japan's whaling fleet, in international waters south of New Zealand on Feb. 12 last year by getting a rope caught in the ship's propeller.
The three are also suspected of hurling smoke candles into the vessel, police said.
Once the warrants are issued by the court, the three will be onthe international wanted list.
Source:Xinhua
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