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Anti-Whaling Campaigners Held on Japanese Ship Near Antarctica
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Japanese whalers are holding two anti-whaling activists who leapt aboard a Japanese ship near Antarctica. The Japanese fleet is being followed by environmental campaigners, who have promised to disrupt the annual whaling expedition. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. Two members of the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd boarded the Japanese vessel Yushin Maru No. 2 Tuesday. Their colleagues say they were trying to deliver a letter demanding an end to the whale hunt. The two - Australian Benjamin Pott and Giles Lane of Britain - were detained by crew members. The Japanese say the activists illegally boarded the ship, and attacked crewmen with bottles of acid.
Japanese whalers are holding two anti-whaling activists who leapt aboard a Japanese ship near Antarctica. The Japanese fleet is being followed by environmental campaigners, who have promised to disrupt the annual whaling expedition. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. Two members of the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd boarded the Japanese vessel Yushin Maru No. 2 Tuesday. Their colleagues say they were trying to deliver a letter demanding an end to the whale hunt. The two - Australian Benjamin Pott and Giles Lane of Britain - were detained by crew members. The Japanese say the activists illegally boarded the ship, and attacked crewmen with bottles of acid.
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