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Freeing Animals Is Not ‘Terrorism,’ Rights Attorneys Argue

Center for Constitutional Rights Moves to Dismiss Charges Against Alleged Mink Liberators

Chicago –(ENEWSPF)—November 6, 2014. Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel at the People’s Law Office and the Federal Defender Program in Chicago filed a motion to dismiss a terrorism indictment against two animal rights activists alleged to have freed mink and foxes from fur farms. The activists were indicted under the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), which punishes causing damage…

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