[IMC-UK-Features] Feature Proposal: 50 Years For The UK SHAC 7

Wed Jan 21 18:03:32 PST 2009

For; Animal Liberation, Repression & SHAC topics, as a start page asap, thanks. 

Sorry if it seems stupid putting UK SHAC 7 in the title on a UK website, but if you type in SHAC 7 you will see that it is also the reference for 6 activists (and SHAC USA) who were found guilty of conspiracy to blackmail HLS.

Picture: Inside HLS - USA, 1997 http://www.shac.net/HLS/photos/1997_usa_8.gif

On Wednesday 21st January, seven activists from the campaign Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) were sentenced to a total of fifty years in prison, after they were <a href="/en/2008/12/416251.html">found guilty</a> in December 2008 of 'conspiracy to blackmail' Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). Heather Nicholson was jailed for 11 years, Gregg and Natasha Avery sentenced to nine years each, Gavin Medd-Hall an eight-year prison sentence, Daniel Wadham jailed for five years, Dan Amos and another were both sentenced to four years in prison.

"They conspired to do A B and C ... with Persons or Persons Unknown." - <a href="/en/2009/01/419665.html">Who were persons unknown?</a> It really didn't matter, as the above conspiracy law linked the individuals even though they had never met them or talked to them. However this was all ignored as the media falsely charged the activists with <a href="/en/2009/01/419112.html">hypocrisy, extremism and terrorism</a>, instead of acknowledging their own <a href="/en/2009/01/418712.html">hypocritical standpoint</a>, best portrayed by the <a href="/en/2009/01/419080.html">Telegraph</a>, with NETCU helping to further the <a href="/en/2008/12/416528.html">hysteria</a> following the activists guilty verdicts.

This secured no opportunity for discussing the reasons the activists faced jail in the first place, because they opposed the <a href="http://www.shac.net/science/facts.html">fradulant</a> and <a href="http://www.shac.net/HLS/exposed.html">abusive</a> vivisection industry, instead promoting <a href="http://www.shac.net/science/alternatives.html">alternative, reliable</a> research methods. So on the 19th and 20th there were solidarity actions in <a href="/en/2009/01/419697.html">Moscow</a>, <a href="/en/2009/01/419477.html">Birmingham</a>, <a href="/en/2009/01/419382.html">Southampton</a> and at <a href="/en/2009/01/419709.html">HLS sites, suppliers, Harlan and Sequani labs</a> in the UK. The actions were in support of the UK SHAC 7, with Russian activists also acting in support of the <a href="http://www.shac7.com">SHAC 7</a> in the USA.

<p><strong>Related newswire:</strong> <a href="/en/2009/01/419690.html">Steve Pearl and Netcu we know where you work...</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/419665.html">How you might go to prison for not knowing or knowing someone...</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/419507.html">Article on the SHAC 7 [USA]</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/419664.html">SHAC Sentences anounced</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/419663.html">SHAC trial ends - defendants jailed with disproportionate sentences!</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/419441.html">SHAC Sentencing - watch this space</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/419112.html">SHAC : Hypocrisy, Terrorism and Extremism.</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/419080.html">Yesturdays Torygraph frothing at the mouth over SHAC</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/418712.html">SHAC sentencing and festering hypocrisy</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/417991.html">Demonstrations outside HLS on days of SHAC sentencing. Join us!</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/416581.html">SHAC Case’s Impact on the Environmental Movement</a> | <a href="/en/2008/12/416528.html">Thoughts on media hysteria post SHAC trial.</a> | <a href="/en/2008/12/416308.html">SHAC Newsletter 50 - Out Now!</a> | <a href="/en/2008/12/416280.html">National Anti-Vivisection Day of Action - Mon 19th Jan</a> | <a href="/en/2008/12/416159.html">Letter from AR Prisoner Luke Steele</a>
<p><strong>Previous features:</strong> <a href="/en/2008/12/416251.html"><strong>Anti-vivisection campaigners convicted of blackmail</strong></a> | <a href="/en/2008/09/408433.html">Solidarity For Political Prisoner Sean Kirtley</a> | <a href="/en/2008/07/404253.html">Largest HLS Investor Dumps All Shares</a> | <a href="/en/2008/06/401604.html">SHAC Prepares For National March & Rally</a> | <a href="/en/2005/08/321837.html">Victory for animal rights campaigners</a> | <a href="/en/2004/10/298852.html">Activist Imprisoned for Shouting</a> | <a href="/en/2004/06/292675.html">Fisher Scientific Embarrassed Over Links with HLS</a> | <a href="/en/2004/04/289530.html">SHAC World Day for Lab Animals</a> | <a href="/en/2003/11/282089.html">Asahi Glass Protesters Harassed by Police</a> | <a href="/en/2003/12/283243.html">"March Against the Murderers"</a>

<p><strong>Links:</strong> <a href="http://www.shac.net/features/prisoners.html">SHAC Prisoner Support</a> | <a href="http://myspace.com/shacukprisonersupport">SHAC UK Prisoner Support</a> | <a href="http://www.vpsg.org">Vegan Prisoners Support Group</a> | <a href="http://www.netcuwatch.org.uk">NETCU Watch</a> | <a href="http://www.shac.net">SHAC</a> | <a href="/en/actions/2008/shac"><strong>Indymedia UK SHAC topic page</strong></a>

<p>Send letters of support to:

<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/supportnatasha">Natasha Avery</a> NR8987 and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/supportheather">Heather Nicholson</a> VM4859 at HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middx, TW15 3JZ. England. 

<p><a href="http://myspace.com/supportdan">Dan Amos</a> VN7818, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/supportgregg">Gregg Avery</a> TA7450, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/supportgavin">Gavin Medd-Hall</a> WV9475 and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/supportdanwadham">Dan Wadham</a> WV9474 at HMP Winchester, Romsey Road, Winchester, SO22 5DF. England. 

<p>It is currently not known if the 7th defendant wishes to receive prisoner support or not.
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