Australian court fines Japanese whalers for continuing hunt off Antarctica despite court ban
The Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia — An Australian court fined a Japanese whaling company 1 million Australian dollars ($700,000) on Wednesday for violating a court order that it stop hunting whales in an area off Antarctica.
Federal Court Justice Jayne Jagot found that Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, the company that operates Japan’s hunting ships, had repeatedly breached a 2008 court injunction to stop killing whales inside Australia’s exclusive economic zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from Australian-declared territory in Antarctica …
National Post – November 18, 2015 at 12:10 PM
Australian court fines Japanese whalers for continuing hunt off Antarctica despite court ban
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Sea Shepherd’s Paul Watson files human rights lawsuit against Costa Rica
Lindsay Fendt
Related: Sea Shepherd’s Paul Watson turns to human rights commission to block Costa Rica’s legal chase ( www.ticotimes.net/2015/10/14/s… )
Celebrity conservationist Paul Watson turned the tables Tuesday in his long legal battle with Costa Rica by filing a lawsuit against the country before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ( IACHR – www.oas.org/en/iachr/ ) …
The Tico Times – November 18, 2015
Sea Shepherd’s Paul Watson files human rights lawsuit against Costa Rica
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