Hollywood action veteran Rutger Hauer has tried to shine on a light on the case of a Dutch environmentalist jailed in Japan since mid-December over an alleged minor assault. Erwin Vermeulen, a volunteer with the Cove Guardians group from Sea Shepherd was arrested after he was said to have shoved an employee of the Dolphin Resort Hotel in the town of Taiji.
Vermeulen was trying to take photographs of dolphins as they were being transferred between holding pens at the resort, Sea Shepherd reports.
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