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Judge rules chimpanze must be released from zoo, and grants her “non-human rights”
Read Time: | 17th November 2016
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A judge has ruled that a zoo chimpanzee is a “being” with “non – human rights” in a landmark animal welfare case.
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Cecilia, who is in her 30s, has sadly been kept alone in a concrete enclosure for years at the shabby Mendoza Zoo in Argentina after the death of two of her mates.
However, after complaints from a Spanish visitor, which resulted in a two-year legal battle, Judge María Alejandra Mauricio ruled Cecilia be freed and transferred to a sanctuary in Brazil.
Judge Mauricio said non-human creatures possessed rights related to their “animal essence”.
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