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July 14, 2001 |
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25 Animal rights protestors are being held on $25,000 bail following their unconstitutional arrests at protests against Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). Friday, July 13th saw a regional protest against HLS where anti-vivisection activists traveled from around the Northeast to the lab with several groups stopping at HLS-related targets (customers, investors, etc.) along the way.
One group of eight were detained and then arrested at a Bank of New York protest at around 1pm. They are being charged with six unsubstantiated violations including Disorderly Conduct, Harrasment and Criminal Mischief. Two of the eight were juveniles and released within a few hours.
Later close to 100 activists converged on the lab in East Millstone, NJ where they protested in shifts to avoid violating the injunction that only allows 5o people in front of the facility at a time.
Following 2 1/2 hours of shaming HLS employees as they left work for the day, the protest moved to the home of Katherine Brower, Director of Human Resources of the lab. The home demo took place in a county where the injunction restricting the number of people at protests does not apply.
However, overzealous and corrupt police chose to violate the civil liberties that we should have in this country by arresting 20 activists who were peacefully demonstrating against those involved in the torture and murder of 180,000 animals every year. One juvenile was released to his parents.
During the production of this flyer, we learned that about five people have been bonded out of jail by their families and that, in jail, the arrestees have been subjected to many more civil rights violations. A civil suit is expected to be filed.
Call the jail and demand that they be released on their own recognizance as they are not a threat to society or flight risks and that, in the meantime, they be given vegan food.
Middlesex County Adult Correctional Facility: (732) 297-3636
Also call the county prosecutor and ask him to have the non-violent activists released immediately without bail.
Glenn Berman: (732) 745-3332 x3333 / fax: (732) 745-2791
Donate to the HLS 25 Legal Defense Fund set up through the wonderful and always supportive Animal Rights America. Make check out to ARA and put "for HLS 25" in the memo/note area.
Animal Rights America
PO Box 469, Caldwell, NJ 07006
e-mail: ARA@superlink.net
Huntingdon Life Sciences is one of the world's biggest and most notorious contract animal testing labs killing 500 animals every day. HLS tests agrochemical and pharmaceutical products on wild-caught primates, beagle puppies, cats, monkeys, rabbits, and a number of other animals. Activists internationally have committed themselves to shutting down HLS after 5 undercover investigations have shown workers punching beagle puppies in the face, dissecting a conscious monkey, transplanting a frozen pig's heart into a baboon, and falsifying scientific data and procedures for animal welfare.
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT:
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
PO Box 22398, Philadelphia, PA 19110
1-888-354-2435
shacusa@envirolink.org
www.shacusa.net
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