冰岛海岸警卫队和特种部队Viking Squad于周四午夜登船，查扣了由反捕鲸活动人士保罗·沃特森创办的基金会所运营的抗议船只Bandero号，并拘留了船上的21名船员[1]。冰岛当局指称该船无视驱离冰岛海域的指令，对捕鲸船Hvalur 9的安全构成威胁[1]。
被扣押的船员目前被关押在船上，不被允许使用手机[1]。船只已于周五抵达冰岛首都雷克雅未克[1]。警方计划对这些船员进行驱逐并禁止其返回冰岛[1]。沃特森本人并未在船上[1]。
现年75岁的沃特森在2024年曾在格陵兰被监禁5个月[1]。他于2012年被国际刑警组织列为红通人员，但在2025年被移出通缉名单[1]。
Iceland's Coast Guard and special forces Viking Squad boarded and seized the Bandero, a protest vessel operated by the Paul Watson Foundation, at midnight on Thursday, detaining 21 crew members aboard [1]. The Icelandic authorities took action after the ship allegedly disregarded orders to leave Icelandic waters and posed a safety threat to the whaling vessel Hvalur 9 [1]. The detained crew members were not permitted to use mobile phones and remained confined to the ship, which arrived in Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital, on Friday [1].
Authorities announced plans to expel the crew members from Iceland and impose a ban on their return to the country [1]. Paul Watson, the 75-year-old founder of the foundation, was not aboard the seized vessel [1]. Watson previously spent five months in detention in Greenland in 2024 [1]. He was added to Interpol's red notice list in 2012 but was removed from the wanted list in 2025 [1].