Paul Watson

Well, I'm certainly relieved because I haven't seen my family since June, and that means I'll be able to be with my two young boys for Christmas.

Very well. I mean, the prison's a very decent prison. The prisoners are all friendly. The prison guards are all friendly. People of Greenland are very friendly, so it wasn't that bad. The only concern I had was the fact that I hadn't seen my children since June and I was only allowed 10 minutes a week to speak with them.

Well, in the new year, we're going to go to Lyon to Interpol's headquarters to confront them because my case has been under investigation by a European committee looking into political abuse by Interpol. That's been there since 2017. So we want to really get to the bottom of this. You know, the Interpol read notices this for major crimes, serial killing, war criminals.

you know, major drug dealers, nobody gets put on that list for trespassing. It's absurd. That just indicates just how powerful the Japanese influence is.

No, well, the evidence, and we documented everything, the evidence clearly shows that the Japanese pepper sprayed themselves. You could see it going back into their faces and them rubbing their faces afterwards. And we never used any chemicals at all that would cause that kind of a thing. And I wasn't even there at the time that this happened.

So I'm being accused of something where I wasn't part of the planning or even in the participation.

Well, we will continue our opposition to illegal whaling by Japan, Norway and Iceland.

Yes, we have one ship in Bermuda, which is waiting to go after Icelandic whalers in June of next year. And we have one vessel in Australia in the event Japan returns to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

Our concern is to uphold international conservation law. I mean, what's the point of having laws, rules, regulations and treaties if everybody ignores them? And Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean was condemned by the International Whaling Commission and by the International Court of Justice in The Hague. It's up to governments to enforce that, but no governments are willing to do it.

There's a lack of political and economic motivation to do so. So we fill that void.