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ASTRAZENECA & FORTRESS PROTESTS IN LONDON

Thursday, 15th July

We started the protest outside AstraZeneca, the corrupt and greedy pharmaceutical company based at 15 Stanhope Gate, London, W1K 1LN, whose cruel, horrendous and unnecessary experiments to primates inside HLS were exposed in 2008 by Animal Defenders International: Monkeys snatched from the wild in Vietnam, China and Mauritius, traveling from 30 to 70 hours, once caged inside HLS continuously scraped and cut while being handled and removed from cages, behaving irrationally due to the huge amount of stress: collapsing during the procedures, biting off their own toes, vomiting faeces, having a nose bleed etc. Very loudly on the megaphones we called attention to AZ using HLS, no matter how many times HLS has been exposed for animal cruelty and rule breaking, as an excuse to pass their drugs into the market, just for money.

Then we went to Fortress Investment Group based at 5 Saville Row, London, W1S 3PD, to name and shame them for secretly giving a loan of $70 million to HLS in 2006, funding since then the torture and murder of 500 animals inside HLS every single day.

After about ten minutes of protest at Fortress, the police turned up with their latest ruse for prohibiting peaceful protest and free speech – apparently it is now illegal to use megaphones on demos under the Anti-Social Behaviour law dispersal zone, so our speakers were told to stop using the megaphones and leave the demo, otherwise they would be arrested, despite the Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police’s promises made to various media that officers would not use various laws just to stop peaceful protest.

The link between big business and police has once again been shown we wonder just how many ordinary police officers are content to be the lackeys of big business, how many of them joined the force to be told what to do (and when to do it) by pharmaceutical companies that are content to put poisonous drugs on the market, in the name of profit.

Video will be available soon.

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	home >> news ASTRAZENECA & FORTRESS PROTESTS IN LONDON Thursday, 15th July We started the protest outside AstraZeneca, the corrupt and greedy pharmaceutical company based at 15 Stanhope Gate, London, W1K 1LN, whose cruel, horrendous and unnecessary experiments to primates inside HLS were exposed in 2008 by Animal Defenders International: Monkeys snatched from the wild in Vietnam, China and Mauritius, traveling from 30 to 70 hours, once caged inside HLS continuously scraped and cut while being handled and removed from cages, behaving irrationally due to the huge amount of stress: collapsing during the procedures, biting off their own toes, vomiting faeces, having a nose bleed etc. Very loudly on the megaphones we called attention to AZ using HLS, no matter how many times HLS has been exposed for animal cruelty and rule breaking, as an excuse to pass their drugs into the market, just for money. Then we went to Fortress Investment Group based at 5 Saville Row, London, W1S 3PD, to name and shame them for secretly giving a loan of $70 million to HLS in 2006, funding since then the torture and murder of 500 animals inside HLS every single day. After about ten minutes of protest at Fortress, the police turned up with their latest ruse for prohibiting peaceful protest and free speech – apparently it is now illegal to use megaphones on demos under the Anti-Social Behaviour law dispersal zone, so our speakers were told to stop using the megaphones and leave the demo, otherwise they would be arrested, despite the Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police’s promises made to various media that officers would not use various laws just to stop peaceful protest. The link between big business and police has once again been shown we wonder just how many ordinary police officers are content to be the lackeys of big business, how many of them joined the force to be told what to do (and when to do it) by pharmaceutical companies that are content to put poisonous drugs on the market, in the name of profit. Video will be available soon. SHAC London
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