Hollywood star Charlie Sheen has criticised Danish authorities over the arrests of 14 anti-whaling activists, including an Australian, in the North Atlantic.
Sheen donated one of three inflatable boats used by Krystal Keynes and other Sea Shepherd members to try to save a pod of 33 pilot whales being driven toward hunters on the Faroe island of Sandoy.
Ms Keynes, from Exmouth in Western Australia, was among eight activists on the water and six more on land who were arrested and detained by Danish officials.
The boats were seized by the Danish navy.
Sheen accused the Danish authorities of being complicit in the "brutal slaughter".
"I am proud that a vessel bearing my name was there and did all it could to try to stop this atrocity," the Anger Management star said.
"The 40-foot Zodiac called the BS SHEEN that I donated to Mr (Sea Shepherd leader Paul) Watson's tireless and heroic efforts, has been shamefully seized. This level of insidious and vicious corruption must be dealt with swiftly and harshly."
Sea Shepherd claims one of the activists, Spaniard Sergio Toribio, was pulled from a car and assaulted while monitoring the hunt from land, suffering a broken finger.
Large numbers of the mammals are slaughtered each year on the Faroe Islands, an autonomous territory within the kingdom of Denmark.
The method involves the mammals being forced into a bay by flotillas of small boats before being hacked to death with hooks and knives.
Many locals defend the hunt as a cultural right, but animal rights campaigners have denounced it as a "brutal and archaic mass slaughter".
Ms Keynes was released on Sunday and is expected to face court on September 25, along with seven others from the boats.
Eight French citizens, two South Africans, one Italian and a second Spaniard were also arrested.
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