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Home | Monday 27th July 2009 | Issue 685

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TESTING TIMES

An animal rights protest was held by Gateway to Hell campaigners and Stop Sequani Animal Testing group (See SchNEWS 646) in Ledbury, Herefordshire last week (Wednesday 15th).

The demo, named No Holiday For The Animals Inside Sequani, was held to stop the cruel practices of Sequani Labs in their treatment of animals used to test pharmaceutical drugs, chemical compounds and medical devices.

30 protesters in summer clothes with buckets and spades were joined by 22 police officers and 7 police vehicles, while passing motorists showed their support by sounding their horns. Some cops then took offence and started hitting these drive-by supporters... with £30 fines - much to the confusion of the people concerned and the other officers.

One arrest was made of a campaigner for withholding their name, details which were later leaked on a pro-vivisection website after the police used painful restraint methods to extract the information.

More action is planned see www.sequani.wordpress.com or www.gatewaytohell.net

Keywords: animal rights, direct action, herefordshire, sequani, vivisection


 

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