Six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty were convicted at a 2006 trial in New Jersey of conspiracy to violate the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The law, ...

The convicted activists were members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, known as SHAC, a decentralized animal rights movement that spread across the U.K. and U.S. from the late 1990s into the mid ...

March 2, 2006 — -- Leaders of an animal-rights group believed they were preventing violence, but instead they were convicted of inciting it. A federal jury convicted six leaders of an animal ...

Defense lawyers call the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty case only the latest example of the government infringing on activists' free speech. One compared it to the pursuit of communists and civil ...

The group, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, maintained its actions constituted free speech protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The government claimed the group, ...

Last fall, a three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based court ruled that the young adults -- acting under the name Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) -- conspired to commit animal enterprise ...

The animal rights groups gained notoriety for targeting U.K.-based Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) over cosmetics testing that company conducts on animals. Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty began with ...

“We’ll be back, scumbag,” Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty said on its Web site later in the day. “Denny, we know where you live, we know where you work, and we’ll make your life hell ...

The Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (Shac) campaign has focused on the suppliers. So far this year 80 companies have severed ties with Huntingdon because of pressure from animal rights campaigners and ...

An animal rights group and six members of its members were convicted Thursday of inciting violence against a company that uses animals for testing products. IE 11 is not supported.

Federal agents also said San Diego was involved with the international animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.. San Diego is charged with damaging and attempting to damage a building ...