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Sea Shepherd Activist Pete Bethune returns home
last update: Aug 31, 2010 09:28 AM
From various articles: Finally, after four long months in a Japanese prison, New Zealander Pete Bethune has finally returned to his home in Auckland.
Bethune was arrested and taken back to Japan after confronting with the Japanese whaling vessel called Shonan Maru #2. Now four months later and after spending half a million dollars in legal fees, Pete Bethune was greeted by his wife, Sharyn, and their two daughters, Danielle, 15, and Alycia, 13, in New Zealand.
Initially, Bethune was sentenced for 2 years in Japanese prison for the involvement in direct clashes with Japanese whalers, but the sentence was suspended after four months.
In his press conference, Pete Bethune clearly stated that he doesn't feel any regret at all for what he did in the Antarctic waters as he attempted to invoke the realization in the government that whaling should be stopped.
Read more:
All Voices, 28th August 2010
Right Celebrity, 27th August 2010
