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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Sea Shepherd anti-whaling activist on trial in Japan AFP - 2 hours 33 minutes ago Send IM Story Print Peter Bethune, a New Zealand anti-whaling activist of the US-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society went on trial in Japan Thursday on five charges relating to Antarctic high seas clashes. TOKYO (AFP) - – An anti-whaling activist of the US-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society who boarded a Japanese harpoon ship in Antarctic waters this year went on trial in Japan Thursday. New Zealander Peter Bethune, 45, was detained by whalers more than three months ago after he climbed aboard the Shonan Maru II, the security ship of the Japanese whaling fleet, during its annual cull of the sea mammals. Bethune pleaded guilty to four charges but denied a charge of assault. The case throws a spotlight on Japanese whaling, which the island-nation defends as part of its culture and carries out under a loophole to an international moratorium that allows lethal "scientific research". The militant Sea Shepherd group pursued and harassed Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters for months in the 2009-2010 season, a campaign which both sides say reduced the Japanese cull by several hundred whales. The group, which receives millions of dollars from Hollywood businessmen and is backed by stars including Sean Penn, Martin Sheen and French screen siren Brigitte Bardot, prides itself on "innovative direct-action tactics". Around 20 Japanese protesters, watched over by police, staged a noisy rally and waved signs saying "Hang terrorist Peter Bethune!" and "Destroy Caucasian discrimination against Japanese!" outside the Tokyo District Court. Amid intense public interest in the trial in Japan, 427 people queued for the court's 18 seats available to visitors. Bethune faces five charges, including injuring a Japanese whaler with a rancid butter, or butyric acid, stink bomb during a February 11 clash. Prosecutors say the projectile caused chemical burns to the face of a 24-year-old crew member, who required one week of medical treatment, and also hurt the eyes of several other whalers. Bethune also faces a charge of obstructing business, for the group's campaign of harassment, and charges for boarding the security ship on February 15 -- trespassing, property destruction and violation of the weapons control law for carrying a knife with a longer-than-legal blade. "Regarding the assault charge, I deny the charge," said Bethune, dressed in a suit and Japanese slippers, at the start of his trial. "For the disruption of business, I admit that I fired the butyric acid but there were additional circumstances that we will discuss in court," he said. He did not contest the three other charges. "For the knife and cutting the net, I admit the fact," he said, referring to cutting a security net in order to enter the ship. "I admit that I boarded the Shonan Maru II. But I believe that I had good reason to do so." If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in jail. Prosecutors quoted the Shonan Maru II captain Komiya Hiroyuki as saying: "The Sea Shepherd's actions are unforgivable and we would like (the court) to hand down a severe punishment." Bethune was the captain of the futuristic powerboat the Ady Gil, a trimaran made of Kevlar which was sliced in two in a collision with the Shonan Maru II in January while carrying six crew, and which sank soon after. The next month Bethune scaled the Japanese ship from a jet ski with the intent of making a citizen's arrest of its captain for the attempted murder of the Ady Gil's crew, and to bill him for the sunken vessel. Instead, Bethune was detained by the whalers and taken back to Japan, where he was formally arrested by the Japanese Coast Guard on March 12. Outside the court, one of the protesters, Shuhei Nishimura, said: "Peter Bethune is not like an ordinary criminal. "To let him loose would be the same as letting loose a dog with rabies," he said to cheers from other protesters. "He will surely bite Japanese whenever he finds them." Japan has also sought Interpol's help to arrest Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson over the harassment of the whaling ships in recent years. Speaking from outside Japan to the Fuji Television Network, Watson said of Bethune's trial: "I don't think that this is really what you would call justice, it's more of a political trial." He also vowed: "Not only are we going to continue, we are going to escalate, we get stronger every year, we get more resources every year, and we intend to save more whales next year than we did this year." Bethune's second and third hearings are set for Friday and Monday, and a verdict is expected later in June. 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