Protest group’s hunger strike
NZPA-Reuter Perce, Quebec Five opponents of Canada’s baby seal hunt have started a hunger strike in jail to protest at their arrest, said officials. The five were among 21 members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society who appeared in court yesterday on charges of interfering with the annual hunt. In court, one of the protesters said that seven of the defendants were refusing all food and drink except water until they were released. Later, a guard at the Perce jail said that five — three men and two women — were involved in the strike They included Paul Watson, captain of the seized protest ship Sea Shepherd. The police, firing smoke bombs and tear-gas boarded the vessel in the Gulf of St Lawrence at the week-end after it had ignored Coast Guard orders to withdraw from the area of the hunt.
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Press, 31 March 1983, Page 6
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