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The New York Court of chimpanzees - not people
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Judge Barbara Jaffe, after a four-month trial, decided that shipanze - not people. They can not enjoy the right of "habeas corpus" - the presumption of unlawful detention. The judge noted that ever attempts to give chimpanzees human rights can succeed.
The head of the company Nonhuman Rights Project Stephen Wise had promised to appeal to free Hercules and Leo at the University of Stony Brook.
, thirty male pygmy chimpanzee (the bonobo) named Kanzi is comparable to the three-year child of intelligence. Kanzi understands two thousand words. Chimpanzee using keyboard leksigrammami he asked his teacher, Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, научить its Kindle Fire , to prepare food for him. i>
Company Nonhuman Rights Project 2013 tries to free Hercules and Leo of the Research Centre of the University of New York at Stony Brook. In April 2015 the first time in US history a couple of chimps get the right people. Judge Barbara Jaffe decided , chimps, which are contained in the research center of the University, have the right person, "habeas corpus." Act «Habeas Corpus Act», adopted by the British Parliament in 1679, is a legal basis for the presumption of illegal detention, this principle applies to the XVII century in American law.
Prior to this decision Nonhuman Rights Project filed three lawsuits in the appropriate lower court. Representatives of the Human Rights Society to convince the judge that the Hercules and Leo are smart enough to give them basic human rights.
The next day, April 21, the judge changed his mind, deleting wording «habeas corpus." She scheduled a hearing with representatives of the University at Stony Brook and society Nonhuman Rights Project May 6.
The next hearing was held only 27 of May. Judge not made a final decision on the case . Lawyer Nonhuman Rights Project insisted that chimpanzees are capable to think critically, make decisions, and have self-awareness, they remember the past and plan their lives. The lawyer asked the court to give chimps right "habeas corpus" to free Hercules and Leo and send them to the sanctuary in Florida.
July 30 held another hearing. The judge decided that the chimpanzee can not be equated to the people: "They do not have any legal rights other than those that protect them from physical violence and other ill-treatment», - Tass quoted . Barbara Jaffe noted that "attempts to extend legal rights to chimpanzees can understand, someday they may even succeed."
Source: geektimes.ru/post/259616/
The head of the company Nonhuman Rights Project Stephen Wise had promised to appeal to free Hercules and Leo at the University of Stony Brook.
, thirty male pygmy chimpanzee (the bonobo) named Kanzi is comparable to the three-year child of intelligence. Kanzi understands two thousand words. Chimpanzee using keyboard leksigrammami he asked his teacher, Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, научить its Kindle Fire , to prepare food for him. i>
Company Nonhuman Rights Project 2013 tries to free Hercules and Leo of the Research Centre of the University of New York at Stony Brook. In April 2015 the first time in US history a couple of chimps get the right people. Judge Barbara Jaffe decided , chimps, which are contained in the research center of the University, have the right person, "habeas corpus." Act «Habeas Corpus Act», adopted by the British Parliament in 1679, is a legal basis for the presumption of illegal detention, this principle applies to the XVII century in American law.
Prior to this decision Nonhuman Rights Project filed three lawsuits in the appropriate lower court. Representatives of the Human Rights Society to convince the judge that the Hercules and Leo are smart enough to give them basic human rights.
The next day, April 21, the judge changed his mind, deleting wording «habeas corpus." She scheduled a hearing with representatives of the University at Stony Brook and society Nonhuman Rights Project May 6.
The next hearing was held only 27 of May. Judge not made a final decision on the case . Lawyer Nonhuman Rights Project insisted that chimpanzees are capable to think critically, make decisions, and have self-awareness, they remember the past and plan their lives. The lawyer asked the court to give chimps right "habeas corpus" to free Hercules and Leo and send them to the sanctuary in Florida.
July 30 held another hearing. The judge decided that the chimpanzee can not be equated to the people: "They do not have any legal rights other than those that protect them from physical violence and other ill-treatment», - Tass quoted . Barbara Jaffe noted that "attempts to extend legal rights to chimpanzees can understand, someday they may even succeed."
Source: geektimes.ru/post/259616/
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