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Court Declares Seal Hunt Observers Innocent

Friend | 22.10.2008 15:02 | Animal Liberation | Ocean Defence

An animal rights campaigner from Nottingham charged with breaching a seal exclusion zone in Canada was acquitted on Friday. Mark Glover, who is a member of the Carlton-based group Respect for Animals, was one of five activists arrested while filming the annual Canadian seal hunt and accused of violating a condition of their observation licenses which required that they remain at least 10m from sealing activity.

The slaughter of the baby harp seals has been condemned around the world
The slaughter of the baby harp seals has been condemned around the world


[On Friday] Judge JeanPaul Decoste declared the defendants innocent in the case against five seal hunt observers, including UK citizen Mark Glover. This verdict has been anticipated since the case first began in October 2007.

"The evidence showed without a doubt that my clients were innocent and I thank Judge Decoste for seeing through the Crown’s illogical arguments to the contrary and finding them innocent," said Clayton Ruby, lawyer for the accused.

In March of 2006, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Department of Fisheries and Oceans officer Jean-Francois Sylvestre charged the five defendants -Mark Glover of Respect for Animals and Humane Society International, Canadians Rebecca Aldworth and Andrew Plumbly and Americans Chad Sisneros and Pierre Grzybowski all with Humane Society of the United States - with violating a condition of their observation licenses which requires they remain at least 10m from sealing activity. The defendants were in the Gulf of St. Lawrence documenting the commercial seal hunt to bring the shocking images of baby seals being clubbed, shot and even being skinned alive to the world.

The defense case rested heavily on the video records of four separate parties: a Canadian government ship, an independent reporter and two of the accused which scientifically showed that the defendants were at least 19.6m from sealing activity at the time of the incident. Judge Decoste refused to hear the experts who were called by the defense, but nonetheless found, after viewing the tapes himself, that the Crown case had not been proved.

"This was not only a victory for my clients but for the entire Canadian justice system," continued Ruby. "Today’s ruling proves what we have been saying all along. These charges should never have been brought in the first place and were a huge waste of taxpayer money, charitable funds and judicial resources. Our presence documenting this cruel hunt of baby seals, keeps the pressure of world criticism on Canada and enables us to urge the rest of the world to refuse seal products."

This ruling comes at a time when the European Union is considering a ban on seal imports including those from the Canadian hunt.

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Congratulations

23.10.2008 09:54

Well done to Mark Glover and the other brave people who had to witness this harrowing act to get justice. It must have been terrible for them to have to see this barbarity but they did and then suffered the worry of a trial for their lawful actions, thank God justice has prevailed and I hope this disgusting cruelty will one day be ended.

Kathy


its the crazy seals that responsible for the destruction of canadaian habitat

24.10.2008 20:35

its nothing to to do with enocuraging our fishermen to decimate cod & other fish populations. They have no other sustainable option but to kill the evil seal because nature & seals are the ones really destroying habitat, apparently.

King Cod