Sentenced for Protesting on a Whaling Ship

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Two foreign women who protested Icelandic whaling by boarding a whaling ship in Reykjavík Harbor in the fall of 2023 and staying there for more than 24 hours were convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of 200 thousand krónur each and legal costs. "This was lost," said Katrín Oddsdóttir, the women's defense attorney, after the verdict was announced. She said she had no damage...

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Two women, Sahar Babaei and Elissa May Phillips, were convicted today in the Reykjavík District Court for boarding a whaling ship in Reykjavík Harbour without permission in September 2023 and refusing to leave the ship. The women were protesting whaling. They argued in court that the actions had been a last resort to prevent the whaling. The charges were for burglary and for failing to obey police orders to leave the ships Hval 8 and Hval 9. The…

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Anahita Babaei and Elissa May Philipps have been convicted of breaking into a whaling ship in protest in 2023 and sentenced to a fine of 200 thousand krona.