Iceland is one of three countries that still permits commercial whaling. The activists headed to trial this week are calling on Icelandic officials to ban the practice permanently.

By Teresa Tomassoni

At 4 a.m. on Sept. 4, 2023, two environmental activists, Elissa Phillips and Anahita Sahar Babaei, climbed aboard a pair of aging whaling vessels moored side by side in Reykjavík harbor to stop them from heading out to sea. A temporary ban on killing whales in Iceland had just been lifted and the women believed the ships’ crew would soon resume their hunt.

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