Greenpeace whaling activists get one-year jail sentence

Ecologist

6th September, 2010

Greenpeace has condemned as 'disproportionate and unjust' a one-year jail term, suspended for three years, handed down on two Greenpeace activists who exposed widespread corruption in the Japanese government's whaling programme

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