Today on the Net: Chinese bloggers go into action to free a human rights activist; Web reacts to a poster of Obama disguised as the Joker; and an online animated movie denounces whale hunting in Australia.
Japan’s factory whaling ship is back in Tokyo harbour after a five-month hunt in the Antarctic Ocean. However, the environmental watchdog Greenpeace suspects members of the crew of smuggling whale meat. (Report: N.Tourret)
Iceland opened up the door to a new era of commercial whale hunting, setting a quota of mink whales to be killed. Iceland joins Norway as the only two countries to hunt whales since the 1986 international whaling moratorium.
