Eighteen activists were arrested earlier this week after 200 people participated in a Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty-organized protest outside a Huntingdon Life Sciences facility and the proposed cite for Cambridge University’s primate research center.
The activists were arrested for not having a permit for their protest, and were charged with “public order offences” according to Cambridge News.
A spokesman for the police told the newspaper,
People have the right to demonstrate but those demonstrations must be lawful. We have worked closely with demonstrators in the past to ensure they can carry out their right to protest without breaking the law but unplanned protests are irresponsible and we will not tolerate them.
Source:
Animal rights demo members arrested. Cambridge News, December 9, 2002.