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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

An animal rights group and six of its members were convicted in Trenton of using their website to incite threats, harassment and vandalism against a company that tests drugs and household products ...

The four, members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, used threats such as claiming that company managers were pedophiles, sending hoax bombs, dumping paint stripper on an executive's car and ...

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 ...

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 ...