"Paul is doing well, he is in good spirits. He has no regrets," Lamya Essemlali said in a statement after visiting Watson in custody in Nuuk, Greenland, on Monday.
Watson, the 73-year-old American-Canadian founder of Sea Shepherd, was detained in Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, under an international arrest warrant issued by Japan.
He was arrested after arriving in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, when the ship John Paul DeJoria docked to refuel.
The vessel was on its way to "intercept" Japan's new whaling factory vessel in the North Pacific, according to the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (CPWF).
Japan is one of the only three countries in the world to permit commercial whaling, along with Iceland and Norway.
Danish authorities arrested Watson on the basis of an Interpol "Red Notice" issued in 2012, when Japan accused him of causing damage and injury to one of its Japanese whaling ships in the Antarctic two years earlier.
He will remain in custody in Greenland until August 15, while the Danish justice ministry decides whether he should be extradited.
French President Emmanuel Macron's office has asked Danish authorities not to extradite Watson, who has lived in France for the past year.
A French online petition urging Macron to demand Watson's liberation has garnered almost 670,000 signatures in eight days.
Sea Shepherd France said Tuesday that it had launched a separate online petition addressed to Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen urging her not to extradite Watson.
That petition had almost 13,000 signatures as of Tuesday evening.
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