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Brit Elyssia Phillips and her close friend Anahita Babaei remained on top of a whaling boat mast for 33 hours
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Two environmental activists are facing potential prison sentences after climbing onto the mast of a whaling boat and remaining there for 33 hours during a protest in Iceland.
Elyssia Phillips, a British woman from Lewes, and her close friend Anahita Babaei, who is Iranian, had been campaigning against the controversial practice of killing endangered fin whales.
