DOLPHIN ACTIVIST AND "THE COVE" FILM MAKER MARTYN STEWART DETAINED AT JAPAN AIRPORT AND ACCUSED OF ECO-TERRORISM - THEN DEPORTED

BBC filmmaker Martyn Stewart who documents the bloody dolphin hunts in Taiji ("The Cove") was locked up at Osaka airport  accused of being an ‘eco-terrorist’.

 

Stewart, who films documentaries about the dolphin hunts in Taiji, said his conditions and the way he has been treated was ‘nothing short of criminal’.  He posted on his Facebook account: “I am locked in a cell room at Osaka airport waiting on an appeal to the high minister regarding my entry into Japan.   I’m accused of being sea shepherd and an eco terrorist. My footage is not liked in Japan apparently and have been accused of assaulting members of the public.  In 4 years of being here for the dolphins I have maintained the law and abided by their rules. My words and pictures did the rest. The government of Japan will do anything to protect the rights of the fishermen of Taiji and the barbaric treatment of the animals involved.  Please share far and wide to bring awareness to this corrupt government and those that want to continue to brutally treat these amazing animals.”

 

Stewart has visited Japan several times to film the dolphin hunts in Taiji where hundreds of animals are wrestled into nets. Some are killed for meat, others are trapped and sold to aquariums.  Japanese fisherman say the annual hunt is part of their culture.

 

Writing on his blog last year, he said: “What I learnt from these visits was that we (westerners) cannot stop this war on the oceans. Japan and most of its people have to end this and in some way, make them believe it was their idea. Pressure from outsiders only gets their goat and they become stubborn. I got the impression that if you tell the fishermen to end this atrocity, they tried harder to kill. They are now actually being blasé about the capturing and killing. Yes, tarpaulin is still being used heavily but they are not as vigilant in stopping people from seeing the odd dead dolphin or tail draped outside of the boats that carry the corpses to the butcher house anymore.”

News story source with video of the massacre of dolphins
http://www.london24.com/news/bbc_filmmaker_martyn_stewart_locked_up_in_japan_accused_of_being_eco_terrorist_1_3319588

UPDATE:  Stewart deported

Taiji dolphin hunt filmmaker Martyn Stewart reportedly deported from Japan
http://globalnews.ca/news/1148288/filmmaker-martyn-stewart-who-documents-infamous-taiji-dolphin-hunt-detained-in-japan/


DOLPHIN MASSACRE GOES ON

-  http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/2014/01/29/taijis-dolphin-hunts-continue-1549

-  http://globalnews.ca/news/1096243/slaughter-of-dolphins-begins-in-japans-taiji-cove-despite-criticism/

 

Photo - Sea Shepherd Society

RELATED

Sea Shepherd Society
http://www.seashepherd.org/

Japanese massacre dolphins in their annual bloody orgy -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542611/Captive-dolphins-killed-one-one-Japanese-bloodbath-festival.html


Japanese are not the only ones engaging in this gory massacre of cetaceans - Europeans do too
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/faroe-island-annual-blood-orgy-as-they.html

Video of humans slashing helpless dolphins in a sea turned red
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gydea-nUzFw

Dolphin mother commits suicide after being separated from her son by Japanese fishermen
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2543317/Mother-prized-albino-dolphin-COMMITS-SUICIDE-torn-baby-Japanese-fishermen-notorious-killing-cove.html

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