NETHERLANDS: ANIMAL ACTIVISM Dec 6 2002
Animal Activists Sentenced to Prison and Fine
Ten animal activists were sentenced (nl) to seventeen days in prison and a
blanket fine of 20,000 Euros for squating the office of the Biomedical
Primate Research Centre (BPRC) in Rijkswijk on Sunday 24 November. The
activists locked themselves in the building to protest against the tests
done there. They were arrested and spent ten days in prison before their
trial on 5 December. The additional seven days were given as probation.
The BPRC currently holds about 1500 primates for medical research, as shown
on a 40 minute video. The BPRC, its owner TNO, and the their financial
adviser, ABN Amro, one of the biggest banks in the Netherlands, are
regularly targets of protests. Most of them are carried out by the Campaign
Koen, named after the recently deceased chimpanzee Koen. Koen was infected
with HIV twenty years ago, and was kept in solitary confinement until his
death.
[ Netherlands IMC | Actioncampaign Koen ]
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