Defending animals is not a crime!
Support of the Austrian activists. Demonstration in Strasbourg, June 19th, 2010.

On March 2nd, an iniquitous process started in Austria . People are threatened by penalties of up to 5 years in jail. Their only crime is to be active in associations and to support disturbing positions. With a very extensive application of anti-terror laws (article 278 of the penal code), the Austrian justice is attacking animal rights activists. This is a very alarming derivation of the justice which threatens political activism itself.
To read more information about this court case, visit www.shameonaustria.org

Animalsace, French organisation and TiRS, a German network defending animal rights are calling out on a demonstration of the citizens and associations (commited into the animal rights movement or not), in Strasboug , France on June 19th 2010. It will be leafleted from 2:00pm to 4:00pm in the city center of Strasbourg , on the Place Kléber. A delegation will then head for the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) at 5:00pm to protest there symbolically, dressed and enchained like prisonners.

Associations and citizens, thanks for spreading this call around you to your members, to other associations or citizens.
The event is also on Facebook: Militer n'est pas un crime ! Soutien aux militants autrichiens inculpés.
The associations willing to be partner of this series of actions can send us their logo and their name at contact@animalsace.org.
To let us know about your intention to attend the event, please contact contact@animalsace.org

A symbolical chain of protests will take place, from Strasbourg to Austria on June 29th, among others in front of Austrian consulates in Strasbourg, Suttgart and Munich, appealing to the reason of Austrian parlamentaries and requiring the abrogation of the paragraph 278, misused against the animal rights movement.
On July 3rd, an armada of vessels will cross the lake of Constance, from Lindau (Germany) to Bregenz (Austria), to free the Austrian democracy from the inner forces trying to corrupt it.

If you need informations or are intending to organise your own protest action, feel free to email us at contact@animalsace.org


www.shameonaustria.org
www.animalsace.org
www.tirs-online.de