‘If I’m sent to Japan, I’m not coming home’: jailed anti-whaler defiant in face of extradition threat

Sea Shepherd's Paul Watson talks about his arrest on behalf of the Japanese government, his interesting' Greenland prison, and separation from his children

The humpback whales watched by Paul Watson from his prison cell this summer have long since migrated from the iceberg-flecked Nuup Kangerlua fjord to warmer seas. It is over four months since Watson - an eco-terrorist to some and a brave environmentalist to others - was brought here to Anstalten, a high-security jail perched on the frozen coast of south-east Greenland after being arrested while refuelling his ship, MV John Paul DeJoria, in nearby Nuuk, the capital of the autonomous Danish territory.

He had been on his way with a 32-strong crew to practise his decades-long policy of non-violent aggression" by intercepting a new Japanese whaling mothership", the 7.5bn ($47.4m) Kangei Maru. But shortly after tying up his vessel in the harbour a nice police car turned up" and 12 armed officers boarded.