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23 Dec 2014 11:06 #230189
by ketchim
A court in Argentina has ruled that a shy orangutan who spent the last 20 years in a zoo
can be granted some legal rights enjoyed by humans. :-*
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23 Dec 2014 11:07 #230190
by ketchim
Sandra covers her head with a cloth to protect herself from the public gaze :
at the Buenos Aires Zoo
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23 Dec 2014 11:08 #230191
by ketchim
Lawyers had appealed to free Sandra from the Buenos Aires zoo :
by arguing that although not human, she should be given legal rights.
They had argued that she was being illegally detained.
The singular case hung on whether the animal was a "thing" or a "person
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23 Dec 2014 11:09 #230193
by ketchim
In December a New York State court threw out a request to free a privately owned chimpanzee
arguing that the animal was property and had no legal rights.
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23 Dec 2014 11:13 #230196
by ketchim
Lawyers had filed a "habeas corpus" writ :
in her favour last November over
"the unjustified confinement of an animal with probable cognitive capability"
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