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Four chimpanzees may soon be legally recognize people
The court will consider the claim on the right to be monkeys lichnostyami
This morning, the project "Non-human rights" (ANP) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of four chimpanzees assigning them the status of a person. These include Tommy - chimpanzees currently cytozoic in Glaversvile, New York.
This is the first of three lawsuits that ANP plans to file a lawsuit this week. The second will be filed on Tuesday on behalf of the deaf Kiko chimpanzees living in a private house. The third will be served a lawsuit on behalf of two chimpanzees Hercules and Leo, which is currently used for experiments at the University of Stony Brook on Long Island. ANP asked the court to grant chimpanzees legal status of the individual, including the right to personal liberty, to enable them to live in their natural environment.
The legal basis for the claim is the habeas corpus - from ancient times to the existing English law concept, which guarantees personal freedom: any detained person may request to bring him to court to prove that he was arrested for some crime.
Such a precedent has already been in history: in 1772, the year the Negro slave James Somerset, who came to London with his owner, fled, was caught and beaten and then chained to the ship, which was about to sail to the shores of Jamaica. With the help of a group of lawyers godfather Somerset habeas corpus filed on his behalf: before Somerset legally considered property, not a man. Conducted case Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Lord Mansfield, in the end made the decision not to admit Somerset property, and a full-fledged personality. Somerset got freedom, but a precedent has since become a crucial episode in the history of English law.
New York State recognizes a general right to security of person: according to the law, any servant can challenge their status and prove their right to freedom. As New York and recognizes the possibility of habeas corpus.
Not the fact that the PPP will win the case, but, at least, will be the first of many - so that in the future it will be possible for the Protection of the gorillas, orangutans, elephants, whales and dolphins: any animal, in one way or another possessing cognitive abilities It can be considered a person, according to the words of the founder of the PPP Stephen Wise.
via factroom.ru
This morning, the project "Non-human rights" (ANP) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of four chimpanzees assigning them the status of a person. These include Tommy - chimpanzees currently cytozoic in Glaversvile, New York.
This is the first of three lawsuits that ANP plans to file a lawsuit this week. The second will be filed on Tuesday on behalf of the deaf Kiko chimpanzees living in a private house. The third will be served a lawsuit on behalf of two chimpanzees Hercules and Leo, which is currently used for experiments at the University of Stony Brook on Long Island. ANP asked the court to grant chimpanzees legal status of the individual, including the right to personal liberty, to enable them to live in their natural environment.
The legal basis for the claim is the habeas corpus - from ancient times to the existing English law concept, which guarantees personal freedom: any detained person may request to bring him to court to prove that he was arrested for some crime.
Such a precedent has already been in history: in 1772, the year the Negro slave James Somerset, who came to London with his owner, fled, was caught and beaten and then chained to the ship, which was about to sail to the shores of Jamaica. With the help of a group of lawyers godfather Somerset habeas corpus filed on his behalf: before Somerset legally considered property, not a man. Conducted case Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Lord Mansfield, in the end made the decision not to admit Somerset property, and a full-fledged personality. Somerset got freedom, but a precedent has since become a crucial episode in the history of English law.
New York State recognizes a general right to security of person: according to the law, any servant can challenge their status and prove their right to freedom. As New York and recognizes the possibility of habeas corpus.
Not the fact that the PPP will win the case, but, at least, will be the first of many - so that in the future it will be possible for the Protection of the gorillas, orangutans, elephants, whales and dolphins: any animal, in one way or another possessing cognitive abilities It can be considered a person, according to the words of the founder of the PPP Stephen Wise.
via factroom.ru
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