'Xena' actress fined over New Zealand oil protest
- Published: 7 Feb 2013 at 10.44
- Online news: Asia
"Xena: Warrior Princess" actress Lucy Lawless was fined in a New Zealand court for boarding a ship with environmentalists last year in protest at plans to search for oil off Alaska.
Actress Lucy Lawless arrives at the premiere of "Spartacus: War of the Damned", on January 22, 2013 in Los Angeles. She was fined Thursday in a New Zealand court for boarding a ship with environmentalists last year in protest at plans to search for oil off Alaska.
Lawless had pleaded guilty to unlawfully boarding the oil-drilling ship Noble Discoverer with a group of Greenpeace activists last February and occupying it for three days in a bid to prevent it setting sail for the Arctic.
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