“I personally have been followed continuously by police,” says Mel Broughton, one of the UK’s most prominent animal rights campaigners. New laws in the country are being used to stifle legitimate, lawful campaigning against animal experimentation, he claims, including the campaign against a biomedical research lab being built by the University of Oxford.
Not all animal activists restrict themselves to lawful methods. This Thursday, three men and a woman are expected to be sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court, having pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit blackmail as part of a long-running campaign against a family-run farm in Staffordshire where guinea…
