UK: Animal rights group creates hit list of universities conducting research on monkeys

09.11.06

Animal rights activists are using freedom of information laws to draw up a 'hit list' of universities which conduct research on monkeys. Letters sent to six universities requesting details of experiments involving primates have sparked panic among researchers.

The revelation raises the spectre of extremists widening their focus beyond Oxford University where militants are waging a terror campaign to derail a planned £20million animal research facility.

The group which made the requests under the Freedom of Information Act insists it is non-violent and has not yet decided what it would do with the replies....

Source: Letters sent to six universities requesting details of experiments involving primates have sparked panic among researchers

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