DEMOS CONTINUE TO HAMMER DC, USA

A little after 1 PM on Friday, March 21, animal rights activists showed up at the DC office of Novartis, a Huntingdon Life Sciences customer. Shortly thereafter, a DC cop showed up, went inside-and then grabbed one protester and said "as of right now you are under arrest."

She told him the charge was assault for an alleged incident at a PREVIOUS protest. There is just one problem-the alleged incident (I saw it last time around) involved a security guard pushing an activist, NOT the other way around!

This sort of thug tactic, assault someone and then have the victim CHARGED with assault, marks a dramatic escalation by Novartis and by MPD in the conflict over Huntingdon "Death" Sciences.

Novartis is located at 701 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Suite 725, DC 20004

The police attack was not successful in stopping the protest at Novartis, nor did it deter activists from going on to protest at the offices of Merck(Dupont is in the same building), nor at Sanofi-Aventis, both of which are also HLS customers.