Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official) 7 hrs · **Breaking News** Sea Shepherd Senior Cove Guardian Campaign Leader Melissa Sehgal Denied Entry to Japan Melissa Sehgal has been denied entry to Japan to document the brutal annual slaughter of dolphins in Taiji’s infamous cove. While Taiji’s killers were rounding up a pod of approximately 50-60 striped dolphins yesterday, Sehgal was being escorted by airport police to the boarding gate at Tokyo’s Narita Airport after being interrogated and detained and finally forced to leave the country. Sehgal, who has never broken a Japanese law, was denied entry simply for being affiliated with the marine conservation nonprofit, Sea Shepherd. Sehgal has been on the ground in Taiji for four seasons and for six months at a time, the longest duration of any other activist documenting the atrocities in Taiji. Read more: seashepherd.org/…/cove-guardian-campaign-leader-… #tweet4taiji #OpInfinitePatience #SeaShepherd
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:05:45 +0000