Sea Shepherd anti-whaling ship Bob Barker refused entry to Faroe Islands

Territory says it banned activist group's entry after it had 'deliberately attempted to disrupt the legal and regulated activity of driving and killing pilot whales'

Denmark's autonomous Faroe Islands announced on Monday that they had refused entry to a ship carrying 21 activists from the militant conservation group Sea Shepherd who were trying to disrupt traditional whale hunts.

The territory's government said in a statement that it had barred the ship, the Bob Barker, "with a basis in immigration legislation and in the interests of maintaining law and order".