COPENHAGEN — Denmark released anti-whaling activist Paul Watson from detention on Tuesday (Dec 17) and said it had rejected a Japanese request to extradite him over criminal charges dating back more than a decade.

US-Canadian Watson, 74, founder of the Sea Shepherd conservationist group and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, was released in Greenland's capital Nuuk, police in the autonomous Danish territory said.

Watson was apprehended when his ship docked in Greenland in July.

"I'm certainly relieved, especially since it allows me to get home to my children before Christmas," Paul Watson told Reuters after his release on Tuesday.

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