Greenpeace protest from rubber dinghy?
Members - of the. ‘ conservationist organisation, Greenpeace, are- sailing a rubber dinghy from Spain to Britain';.to protest to the International Whaling Commission about the detention by: Spanish authorities of their flagship Rainbow Warrior, a spokesman for the group said yesterday. Three crewmen from the Rainbow Warrior, which was arrested a month ago for alleged ' interference with Spanish' whalers, slipped out of the north-western port of El Ferrol last Friday aboard a nine-metre inflatable dinghy, the spokesman said, *. ' They were expected to
• arrive this morning at Brigh- , ton, in Sussex, wherb tW 1 I.W.C. .annual conference 1 opened yesterday he added, s The conservationists plari- • ned to lobby-the conference: for a ban to commercial ' whaling and to protest abotit the Rainbow Warrior’s de- : tention, he said. . fc The Rainbow Warrior’s i British skipper, Mr Jon : Castle, faces a charge of coercion for alleged harassment of Spariish ' whalers? ’ . The 417-tonne; ■?. converted trjwler remains in detention, at El Ferrol While a Spanish’ Navy judge? investigates the case. . , .... .
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