Hayden Panettiere has revealed there is a warrant out for her arrest in Japan after she took party in an animal rights demonstration in the country last month.

Hayden joined a Save the Whales group on 30th October to confront Japanese fisherman over a dolphin hunt. The Heroes star was almost stabbed by fishing hooks aimed at the group but says “I’d do it again. Very possibly, might do it again.”

She told E! News yesterday: “I [have] learned that I have an arrest warrant out for me in Japan because of what I did for Save the Whales.”

“Obviously this issue has generated defensive behavior on the part of both the Japanese Authorities and Fishermen. I have grown up hearing – and adhering to - this phrase: ‘condemnation without investigation dooms one to everlasting ignorance.’”

“We must unite as a world to solve our increasing international environmental crises. We can no longer hide behinid out-dated, senseless cultural traditions and lazy, bad habits that are resulting in the annihilation of our planet’s resources and the extinction of our species.”

She added that there is a possibility that she could face jail over the incident “but I doubt it… I guess they could come here and get us, but probably not.”

“[But] I was very excited that people were interested in what we did. In [Hollywood], you tend to only get publicity for not wearing underwear or going to rehab.”