Australian environmental group asks court in Sydney to find Japanese whalers in contempt of a 2008 ruling banning fleet from the Southern OceanEnvironmental campaigners are launching a last-ditch legal attempt to prevent Japan from slaughtering whales in the Antarctic this winter,after Tokyo indicated it would ignore a ban on its “scientific” expeditions.
The Australian department of Humane Society International (HSI) will on Wednesday put a question to the federal court in Sydney to find Kyodo Senpaku, the Japanese company that organises the hunts, or in contempt of a 2008 ruling that banned the whaling fleet from hunting in an area of the Southern Ocean that Australia recognises as a whale sanctuary.
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Source: theguardian.com