"Sometimes, going to jail is necessary to make your point. Every situation offers an opportunity, and this was another chance to shine a global spotlight on Japan's illegal whaling in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary," Watson said in an emailed statement. "If I had been sent to Japan, I might never have come home. I'm relieved that didn't happen."
Watson's legal defense maintained that his arrest was politically motivated, based on an episode of 'Whale Wars,' a documentary series on Animal Planet, in which anti-whaling activists intercepted a Japanese ship. Footage his legal team said 'clearly showed his innocence' was not allowed in court.
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