Michael
May 27th, 2004, 03:50 AM
Seven animal rights activists, including three who live in Pinole, were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of conspiring to stalk, harass and intimidate employees of a New Jersey scientific testing firm and the companies that do business with that firm.
The indictment also names the Philadelphia activist organization Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA, which is devoted to trying to put Huntingdon Life Sciences of East Millstone, N.J., out of business. Huntingdon tests pharmaceutical and biotech products on animals in preclinical studies that are eventually submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Eighty percent of the animals are ultimately put to death, according to the firm.
The animals rights group and the seven defendants conspired to encourage like-minded anti-vivisectionists to "operate outside the confines of the legal system," according to the indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in New Jersey. It accused the group of posting on its Web site (www.shacamerica.net) its "top 20 terror tactics" to use against people who work for Huntingdon and the firm's customers.
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The indictment also names the Philadelphia activist organization Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA, which is devoted to trying to put Huntingdon Life Sciences of East Millstone, N.J., out of business. Huntingdon tests pharmaceutical and biotech products on animals in preclinical studies that are eventually submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Eighty percent of the animals are ultimately put to death, according to the firm.
The animals rights group and the seven defendants conspired to encourage like-minded anti-vivisectionists to "operate outside the confines of the legal system," according to the indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in New Jersey. It accused the group of posting on its Web site (www.shacamerica.net) its "top 20 terror tactics" to use against people who work for Huntingdon and the firm's customers.
Full story...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/27/SHAC.TMP