The two detained anti-whaling activists, held captive after
boarding a Japanese whaling boat on Tuesday, were released Friday
morning from a Japanese whaling boat near Antarctica.
"The two men were transferred in the early hours of this morning
and are safe and well onboard the Oceanic Viking," a Foreign
Affairs spokeswoman said.
Sea Shepherd member
Australian Benjamin Potts.
The two Australians, Benjamin Potts and Giles Lane, were picked
up from Japanese whale hunter Yushin Maru No.2 and were in good
health and good spirits.
Kim McCoy, the executive director of Sea Shepherd which the two
detained Australians belonged to, said the group would continue
their protest against the Japanese whale hunt once the men are
aboard.
A spokesman for the Japanese whalers, Glenn Inwood, says it was
a good outcome and the whaling boat was now headed back towards the
rest of the Japanese fleet in the Southern Ocean to resume
whaling.???
Sea Shepherd member
Briton Giles Lane.
(Xinhua News Agency January 18, 2008)
