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Denmark receives extradition request for anti-whaling activist from Japan

By Thomson Reuters Aug 1, 2024 | 3:18 AM

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark’s justice ministry said on Thursday it had received a formal extradition request from Japan on Wednesday for a U.S.-Canadian anti-whaling activist who has been held in custody in Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory, since July 21.

(Reporting by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, editing by Stine Jacobsen)