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Ecuador's President Orders US Environmental Activist Expelled For Role In Shark Fin Seizure

 August 5, 2007 @ 11:33 AM (EST)
Source: Iht.com
President Rafael Correa said Saturday he has ordered a U.S. environmental activist deported from Ecuador for allegedly violating national sovereignty by taking part in a police seizure of two tons of shark fins apparently illegally fished. Sean O'Hearn, a representative of the environmental group Sea Shepherd, was detained before dawn in the capital of Quito. "I am having (him) expelled from the country because I am not going to allow any foreigner to come here to tell us what to do," Correa said on his Saturday morning radio show. "I have an Ecuadorean wife and Ecuadorean daughter," O'Hearn told The Associated Press at the immigration center where he was being held. "This is my country, and for me to treated this way, from night to day to be deported ... without being able to defend myself, I am indignant and my wife feels indignation as an Ecuadorean."...
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