International Actions of Animal Liberation

The actions listed below are a selected few of the hundreds committed on behalf of animal liberation around the world. For a more exhaustive listing, please visit

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• UK Indymedia: Following a lengthy police investigation and an 18-week trial costing over £4.5 million, the operator of a website criticising animal testing company Sequani, has been jailed for four and a half years for organising a legal protest. In an unprecedented case, the press were barred from reporting the trial, witnesses were bussed into the court and mobile phones were even confiscated from the public before they entered the gallery and the jury. The atmosphere was more akin to a terrorist trial than one relating to non-violent protest, which made the charges appear far more sinister than they in fact were. The choice of judge was also considered highly questionable considering he is a keen hunter. Sean Kirtley was found guilty under Section 145 of the SOCPA law for “Interfering with the contractual relationships of a Laboratory” for allegedly organising protests at Sequani Limited and associated business associates. Police say disorder took place on a occasions during protests and claim as the organiser that Sean is responsible for any criminality that takes place. The police claimed that during the protests individuals, not Kirtley, had been verbally abusive to staff members and that they had caused them to feel harassed. However, no-one was arrested or charged with such an offence, and prosecution witnesses testified that Kirtley had on most occasions been silent and peaceful throughout protests. Whilst Kirtley contends he did not organise protests at Sequani or its suppliers, he operated a website which effectively campaigned against the company. In a move that will alarm internet publishers and bloggers, posting details of the legal protests and information about Sequani and suppliers was considered key evidence that he was the campaign organiser. more...
  
  

• BBC News: Some 2,500 minks were set free from the farm near Vaasa, north-west of the capital Helsinki. Police say they have no firm evidence of the culprits but suspect animal rights activists. Police said the letters EVR were spray-painted onto a silo at the farm - which stands for the Animal Liberation Front in Finnish. more...
• Reuters: Farmers and other locals were chasing thousands of minks let out of their cages at a fur farm in western Finland early on Friday by suspected animal rights activists. About half the 2,500 minks released from unlocked cages in Mustasaari, 400 km (250 miles) northwest of Helsinki, had been recaptured by 1000 GMT, but it could take several days to round up the others, police said. "We have no firm suspects at the moment. But the letters EVR were spray-painted on a feed silo at the farm. In this connection it usually means Animal Liberation Front in Finnish," Chief Inspector Mika Jylha told Reuters, but added: "Of course, anyone could write that."
  
  

HLS Customer Novartis Recalls Anti-Septic After Claims of Tampering

• Daily Mail: Thousands of tubes and bottles of Savlon have been taken off shelves after animal rights activists claimed to have poisoned them. High street shops, including Boots and Superdrug, acted after a hardline group claimed to have tampered with more than 250 items containing the antiseptic. The Animal Rights Militia did not say how they had been damaged but it recently claimed to have injected bleach into products in France. Tesco said it had temporarily withdrawn Savlon and would be working closely with police before it was put back on sale. The extremists said they had also targeted "other well-known stores" as part of a continuing campaign against the animal testing laboratory Huntingdon Life Sciences. An internet message said they chose Savlon because its Swiss-based manufacturer, Novartis, is believed to be among the clients of HLS. more...
• The Guardian: Hundreds of thousands of bottles and tubes of Savlon have been removed from sale after animal rights activists claimed to have contaminated them. The Animal Rights Militia said it had tampered with 250 Savlon antiseptic products as part of a campaign against an animal testing laboratory. Savlon is primarily marketed as a treatment for children's cuts and grazes. The group did not say how the items had been tampered with, but it also claimed to have contaminated Novartis contact lens solution, on sale in France, by injecting bottles with bleach. more...
• International Herald Tribune: Animal rights activists claimed to have sabotaged health care products in Britain and France in a long-running, and often violent, campaign against an animal-testing firm, police said Friday. Britain's Animal Rights Militia said it had contaminated products made by the Swiss-based pharmaceuticals manufacturer Novartis AG, targeting the firm over its alleged use of Huntingdon Life Sciences — a company hounded in Britain and the United States for testing medical products on animals. Novartis said thousands of tubes of the popular Savlon brand antiseptic cream had been recalled from high street stores in Britain as a precaution. In France, CIBA Vision, a branch of Novartis, said it had been warned of "a malicious act consisting of voluntary damage" to 85 bottles of the SOLO-Care Aqua solution between Aug. 25-27 and ordered a recall of the product from several French stores. more...
  
  

• Radio Netherlands: Some time ago, I  suggested  that there are well-documented links between the Dutch animal rights movement and violent, left-wing splinter groups. I was inundated with reactions, particularly as I'd mentioned that the killer of anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn was an animal rights activist. Was this any more relevant than if he'd been a hair dresser or a shoe salesman, one listener wanted to know. After all, Fortuyn wasn't murdered for his views about animals. It's a legitimate question, all the more so at a time when connections between, say, the ethnicity or religion of a criminal and his actions are often made without thinking. I'm afraid my answer has been long overdue. Fortunately the Dutch intelligence service has come to my aid, confirming in a new report that violence and intimidation are indeed becoming more and more widespread in the fight against factory farming and the fur trade. As the report documents, first it's a stone through someone's window, then threats against their family and children, and ultimately who knows? In that respect, extreme animal rights activists are no different from other extremists. Which may explain why so many people from the largely defunct squatters' movement - Mohicans, piercings, iron chains...I'm sure you know the type - have found their niche as animal rights crusaders."To live outside the law you must be honest", Bob Dylan once said. But even if you are, deciding how far it's acceptable to go can be a slippery business. And this is where I believe there's a particular problem with the animal rights movement. more...
  
  

• BBC News: Animal rights activists have claimed responsibility for a major arson attack on a cattle farm, police have said. In a message posted on the internet, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) said it caused the damage put at £500,000 at Field Farm in Appleton, Oxfordshire. In the statement about the fire near Abingdon, the ALF said: "We placed several incendiary devices at the site, causing about £500,000 damage. "We will continue to take action against businesses like this until they stop abusing animals." more...
• Oxford Mail: Animal rights activists have claimed responsibility for setting off two bombs at a farm - and warned other businesses could be targeted. Incendiary devices exploded fuel tanks destroying two tractors, containers and 200 bales of hay causing up to £500,000 of damage at Field Farm, Appleton, near Cumnor last month. Now the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) has claimed on a website it carried out the attack adding they will continue to target farms and businesses they believe are involved in transporting livestock to be killed. The protesters also claimed the bombs were set off to coincide with Tony Blair stepping down as Prime Minister. more...
  
  

• Radio Netherlands: A stone through a windscreen, a car splattered with paint, the wall of a building covered in slogans, animal rights activists seem more and more frequently to be using a tough, intimidating way of highlighting their demands, and this has thrown the spotlight on them, particularly so as far as the Dutch parliament and police and judicial authorities are concerned. The current minister of justice would even like to see legislative changes made so that hardline animal rights campaigning can be dealt with more effectively. At the end of June this year, a new report on animal rights campaigning in the Netherlands was published. In the report, the Dutch AIVD intelligence and security service endeavours to provide an overview of the Dutch activists who are campaigning against industrial farming of animals, the fur trade and testing on animals. The service notes in the report that there has been a rise in the number of incidents involving animal rights activists, and the number of what are known as 'home visits' are causing the organisation particular concern. These visits involve activists visiting the home of their intended victim, often in disguise, in order to make threats against the person or persons in question or to cause actual damage to their property. more...
  
  

• Arkangel: It has been reported by the Italian media that 25 monkeys as well as a 1000 mice have been liberated from a breeding unit of Harlan, Italy. Italian media outlets have said that the raid took place in Correzzana - northeast of Milan in the early hours of Tuesday 21st November at approximately 12.55pm. Newspaper reports state spray painted messages left at the scene claimed the action on behalf of "Fronte Liberazione Animale (FLA)." Computers and other equipment are said to have been destroyed in the raid and it is said that access to the animals was gained by the FLA activists cutting a hole on the roof. A press release by Harlan on the same day of the raid has claimed: "They caused substantial damage, destroyed laboratory equipment and smeared internal walls with blood and faeces, which we believe may have been video taped for possible publication in order to create a false and improper impression of our facility and activities. more...
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• The Guardian: A cancer research scientist was jailed today for waging a sabotage campaign against companies linked to animal testing after becoming disillusioned about the use of animal experimentation in his chosen field. Joseph Harris, 26, a doctor of molecular biology, was jailed for three years at Northampton Crown Court. He is the first person to be convicted under new legislation designed to tackle harassment and threats from animal rights activists. The court heard how Harris - who has published papers on pancreatic cancer - came under professional pressure to take part in animal experiments, putting him in "an increasing moral dilemma". His girlfriend also left him, disapproving of his work. more...
  
  

• InfoShop News: Russian animal rights activists have liberated 30,000 mink from a fur farm in the Luzhsky district, Leningradskaja oblast, an area in the north western part of Russia which includes St. Petersburg. According to Russian media reports, the "Pioneer" fur farm, one of several fur farm investment holdings of the LLC Severnaya Pushnina, was targeted by the Russian Animal Liberation Front on the night of 2nd September. Activists allegedly scaled the farm's fence and opened an unspecified number of cages, releasing the mink to spread out as far as 5 km away from the farm. Slogans were also spray painted on the walls of one of the farm's buildings. Police and spokespeople for Severnaya Pushnina speculate that, judging by the number of cages opened, no less than 10 activists had to have participated in the action. more...
  
  

• The Sunday Mail: ANIMAL rights extremists have launched a chilling terror campaign on scientists at a Scots university. The names of more than 100 researchers involved in animal testing were published on the internet, sparking fears for their safety. The campaigners intercepted the names of the lab workers - based at Edinburgh University's science department - from a firm which delivers rodents for research. more...
  
  

• The Portsmouth News: Animal rights activists have broken into a military research centre and taken a group of goats. Members of the Animal Liberation Front struck after dark, cutting through wire fences and bundling the goats into the back of a van. Nine protesters each grabbed a small goat and made off across a golf course to a waiting van. The group said it decided to take action after learning that the animals are used for decompression tests by QinetiQ, which runs the Centre for Human Sciences in Fort Road, Gosport. more...
  
  

• The Oxford Student: Contractors working on the new animal labs on South Parks Road have been stalked and spied on by animal rights activists, it has emerged. The Oxford Student has learnt that on thirteen separate incidents in the past five months, intimidation of individuals has been reported. Workers on site have been approached and harassed for details of the companies they work for, and a number of contractors have been pursued at night and photographed by activists in order to reveal their identities. In one case in January, police intercepted a known activist who had stalked a contractor in a car for four miles. The revelations came in a written witness statement to the High Court of Justice, seen by this newspaper, during the hearing of an application by Oxford University for an extension to their existing injunction against animal rights protesters. more...
• The Oxford Mail: Cult singer-songwriter Morrissey branded Oxford "the shame of England" in an attack on Oxford University's controversial animal research lab. The pop star spoke out against the laboratory, being constructed in South Parks Road, during a show at the New Theatre. The musician, a strict vegan and animal rights advocate, also issued a warning to anyone planning to work at the laboratory. "Make no mistake," he told the audience at the packed theatre, "for anyone working in the labs, we are going to get you." more...
• The Telegraph: Animal rights protesters have discovered the secret location of builders working on the construction of a new Oxford University laboratory, it was claimed last night. Speak, a group that says it uses only legal means to protest against vivisection, will demonstrate outside the men's quarters in a Cotswolds village on Saturday. "The plans by the university to keep secret the workers' location has been foiled," it said. "Once again we have the university on the run; now is the time to press home our advantage." more...
  
  

• The Guardian: Animal rights extremists have launched a campaign against GlaxoSmithKline over the pharmaceutical giant's continued use of medical research group Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), the company said today. Glaxo said letters had been sent to shareholders around the country urging them to sell Glaxo shares to "target its financial vulnerability". more...
• Financial Times: Animal rights activists involved in an intimidation campaign against GlaxoSmithKline shareholders could have their e-mail accounts suspended, MSN, the Hotmail service operator, said on Tuesday. The Campaign Against Huntingdon Life Sciences, an animal rights group, has sent letters to individual GSK shareholders warning them that their details will be posted on the internet unless they sell their shares within two weeks. They are also told to e-mail the protesters to tell them they have done so. more...
• The Guardian: Police are investigating threatening letters posted to scores of small shareholders who have been told their names and addresses will be published on the internet if they do not sell their stakes in GlaxoSmithKline. An anonymous animal rights group claims to be writing to every one of the pharmaceutical giant's 170,000 small investors warning them to sell up as part of an increasingly violent campaign against the Huntingdon Life Sciences laboratory in Cambridgeshire. more...
• The Independent: Animal rights activists have begun targeting private investors for the first time in their campaign of intimidation against the medical testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). The drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which uses HLS to carry out toxicology tests on animals, was inundated with calls from small shareholders yesterday, who received threatening letters from a previously unheard-of animal rights group. The animal rights group, which calls itself Campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences, threatened to publicise shareholders' personal details on the internet unless they sold their holdings in GSK. The letter ends with the words: "The choice is yours." more...
• Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc secured a rare high court injunction on Tuesday night against an unknown group of animal rights activists, preventing them from publicising names of its shareholders. The move makes illegal any attempt by campaigners to carry out a threat to publish on a Web site the names of private investors who refuse to sell their shares in Europe's biggest drugmaker, a company spokeswoman said. It is the first time such an injunction has been granted to a company in Britain. more...

• Reuters: Police searching for the body of a dead woman dug up by animal rights activists said on Wednesday they had found what they believed were human remains. The grave of Gladys Hammond, related to the owners of a guinea pig farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire, was desecrated in October 2004 in a long-running campaign of intimidation. Four animal rights protesters have admitted plotting to blackmail the owners of the farm that bred the animals for medical research and will be sentenced later this month. more...
• The Telegraph: The remains of a pensioner removed from her grave by animal rights extremists have been found after 19 months. Police believe that bones discovered buried at a beauty spot are those of Gladys Hammond, 82, whose grave was desecrated in October 2004. Detectives were given specific details of the spot in the 3,000-acre Cannock Chase country park, Staffs, and unearthed the remains, which had been buried in a makeshift grave. more...
• ITV.com: Human remains found in Staffordshire woodland are those of an elderly woman whose body was robbed from her grave by animal rights extremists, police have confirmed. It was stolen by animal rights activists involved in a long-running hate campaign against the Hall family who run Darley Oaks Farm in nearby Newchurch. The Hall family announced last August that it would cease breeding guinea pigs, which were used in bio-medical research, at the farm in the hope that the move would prompt the grave-robbers to return Mrs Hammond's remains. more...
• The Mirror: Gladys Hammond, who died in 1997 aged 82, was snatched from her grave 18 months ago after a six-year hate campaign against her son-in-law, Christopher Hall, who bred guinea pigs for research. Four animal rights activists are due to be sentenced next week after admitting conspiracy to blackmail the family. Police refused to say if any of the four, who were not charged with the grave robbery, had given them the location of the remains, near a German war cemetery in Cannock Chase, Staffs. more...
  
  

• 24Dash.com: A fourth animal rights activist has today admitted charges in connection with a six year terror campaign against the owners of a guinea pig farm which culminated in the desecration and theft of a pensioner's body from her grave. Josephine Mayo, 38, of Spring Bank Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, pleaded guilty at Nottingham Crown Court to a charge of conspiring to blackmail David Hall and Partners and others connected to Darley Oaks Farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire between September 1999 and September 2005 . Kerry Whitburn, 36, of Summer Road, Edgbaston, John Smith, 39, of Leicester Street, Wolverhampton, and John Ablewhite, 36, of Hawley Street, Manchester, admitted the same charges during a hearing before Judge Michael Pert QC yesterday. All four defendants will be sentenced during a two day hearing before the same court on May 10 and 11. more...
• The Guardian: Members of an animal rights gang were warned today they would be jailed for up to 12 years after admitting blackmail against the owners of a farm breeding guinea pigs for medical research, who faced a six-year intimidation campaign culminating in the theft of an elderly relative's dead body. Judge Michael Pert told Kerry Whitburn and John Ablewhite, both 36, and 39-year-old John Smith that they should expect terms of up to 12 years in prison when they return to Nottingham Crown Court for sentencing in May. more...
  
  

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• The Sunday Times: ANIMAL activists have for the first time threatened violence against all staff and students at Oxford university over its plans for a £20m animal research laboratory. In a posting on an internet site, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) has told its supporters that any academic, student or company connected to Oxford is a legitimate target, irrespective of whether they are involved in animal research. more...
• The Oxford Mail: Students at Oxford University are planning a demonstration to combat protests against the new £18m animal research laboratory. The group, which calls itself Pro-Test, will hold its first major rally on February 25, which will coincide with the latest monthly demonstration by animal rights group Speak. more...
• The Independent: "I believe all things in life are connected. These animals suffer terribly, they're probably destroyed, and they get no choice in it," says Kevin, 41. "We should bring back the death penalty and do these experiments on rapists and paedophiles." This month, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) announced in a statement circulated to activists that anyone associated with Oxford University is a legitimate target for attack, after work restarted late last year on the university's £18m biomedical facility. more...
  
  

• The Daily Mail: A man has been arrested in connection with the savage murder of a female academic who was stabbed 49 times and apparently strangled with her own sweater shocked the university city of Oxford. The body of Dr Barbara Johnston, 55, who returned to Britain just four months ago after working in New Zealand for 23 years, was found in her bedroom in the city's quiet northern suburbs. more...
• The Sunday Times: A MEDICAL researcher found murdered in her Oxford home was stabbed 49 times and strangled with her jumper, police revealed yesterday. Dr Barbara Johnston, 55, a researcher into childhood respiratory complaints who had used live animals on some projects, is believed to have answered the door of her flat to her killer. Johnston, who studied at Southampton University and Somerville College, Oxford, had worked on research papers in New Zealand with the vivisectionist Professor Peter Gluckman, who has been targeted on several occasions by animal activists. he pair studied brain injuries using live lambs. Johnson has also used live rats in her research. more...
• TMC Net: Animal rights campaigners are concerned the brutal murder of a former Auckland University academic in England could tarnish the reputation of animal rights' groups worldwide. Police have arrested a 41-year-old man and believe the death could be the work of animal rights extremists. The former academic was involved in research preventing brain damage in premature babies during a 23 year stay in this country. more...
• Auckland NewsTalk: Police in England are conducting a fingertip search of the house where the body of former Auckland academic Barbara Johnston was found. Dr Johnston had been strangled and stabbed 49 times. Her body was found in her Oxford flat. It is thought her death could be the work of animal rights extremists. more...
• IC Birmingham: The family of an academic strangled and stabbed in her flat have spoken of their devastation at the loss of their "devoted" daughter. Dr Barbara Johnston's parents Anthony, aged 80, and Valerie, aged 79, who live in Walsall, said their daughter, an Oxford-educated medical researcher, had dedicated her life to the battle against cot death and premature birth. Officers arrested a 42-year-old man on Saturday on suspicion of murder and last night were given a further 24 hours to hold him for questioning. more...
• Oxford Mail: The hunt for the killer of Dr Barbara Johnston went worldwide last night, with police calling for friends and colleagues in New Zealand to get in touch by email. He said that Dr Johnston had not been drugged, was not drunk and had not been sexually assaulted. Any link between her death and animal rights activists was ruled out. more...
• New Zealand herald: When one of her scientific proteges landed a research post in England, Barbara Johnston quickly offered her country house near Oxford. The head of the police investigation, Acting Detective Superintendent Steve Tolmie, indicated to the Weekend Herald that the motive for the "very brutal, ferocious" attack was money. more...
  
  

• The Sunday Times: A FROG exporter in Meath is closing down his business following an attack on his property by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a violent international group. Acid was thrown on the businessman's car and slogans daubed on buildings located around his farm. Denis McCarthy, who runs the Kells-based Frog Farm, which is Europe's sole exporter of common frogs for medical research, had originally told the group he would retire at the end of this month, in order to forestall further attacks. more...
  
  

• The Financial Times: Animal rights extremists have claimed responsibility for attacking the home of a senior employee of GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical company. The Animal Liberation Front said it had placed a device outside the home of GSK's corporate controller, Paul Blackburn, on September 7. more...
• The London Times: Animal rights activists have targeted an Oxford college and the chief executive of a pharmaceutical company in a fresh wave of attacks. more...
• The Guardian: A chain of children's nurseries has become the target of animal rights activists who are attempting to close down the chemicals testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences, it emerged yesterday. more...
• The Independent: Animal-rights extremists have threatened to target children's nurseries in their campaign to drive a British-based vivisection company out of business. more...
• BBC News: Activists have admitted firebombing the home of a Glaxosmithkline executive and an Oxford University building. Leapfrog Day Nurseries also said it had been threatened over a childcare scheme it ran for Huntingdon Life Sciences. more...
• The Telegraph: Animal rights activists have launched a fresh wave of attacks, targeting a senior pharmaceutical executive and an Oxford college. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) claimed responsibility yesterday for a device left outside the home of Paul Blackburn, the corporate controller of Britain's biggest pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). more...
• The Independent: Death threats from animal rights extremists have forced nine companies to sever links with the controversial animal research company Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). Letters sent by a group calling themselves the Animal Rights Militia (ARM) to the home addresses of directors said "your family is a target" and they would "suffer the consequences" if they did not comply with a two-week deadline to sever all links. more...
• The Telegraph: Senior figures in the biotechnology industry met Home Office advisers yesterday after a number of attacks by animal rights activists. The industry has been seeking better protection. It fears that many businesses will move overseas if the problem, which came to a head with a series of attacks and threats this week, is not curbed. more...
  
  

• Seattle Post-Intelligencer: OXFORD, England -- They firebombed an Oxford University boathouse, planted explosives beneath cars and appear to have stolen the remains of an 82-year-old woman. Now animal rights activists are vowing to turn Oxford into a battleground in order to stop construction of a new biomedical research center - and the university is promising it will be built. more...
• The Guardian: Outside a derelict building site in Oxford, a weekly ritual is under way. A team of police officers with video cameras films a small gathering. A pair of process-servers in fluorescent jackets stand by with writs to serve on anyone whose face they do not recognise. A 14-page injunction, authorised by the chancellor of Oxford University and nailed to an old lime tree, stipulates how the gathering must behave. more...
  
  

• ALF Communique:
  • June 17th, 2005 (Moscow region, Pushkino). Activists opened cages with minks on the fur farm "Pushkinsky". As a result about 70 minks were released. Twelve minks were taken to the forest and were freed there. After previous raids farm security was doubled and more additional security measures were taken. But it didn't make an obstacle for ALF activists to make an action.
  • June 27th, 2005 (Moscow region, Andreevka). Members of Animal Rights Militia visited breeding farm, which breeds animals for labs. 80-100 rats were released near the farm. 166 rats were released in the forests far away from the farm. During the raid locks were destroyed and slogans against vivisection and for animal liberation were left. Video (1mb, wmv): http://aeliberation.net/media/video/200rats.wmv
  • June 29th, 2005 (Moscow region, Balashikha). ALF group cut metal fence and got in the fur farm in Balashikha town. After previous raids the farm security was redoubled and for this reason only one fox was saved. After two days staying at safe place the fox was released in the forest.Photo: http://aeliberation.net/media/photo/liberation/1fox/index.htm
  • June 23th, 2005 (Moscow region, Pushkino). Animal Liberation Front  activists got in the area of fur farm "Pushkinsky". Five sables were released from cages. Other three were taken far away from the fur farm and freed in the forest. Some of the cages were smashed, on the walls of three rooms spray-paint slogans: "Freedom for animals", ALF  etc. - Russian Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group RALF SG contact: Web: aeliberation.net (in russian language) Email: aeinfo@aeliberation.net
    
    

• ALF Communique: " On the 4th july a Animal Liberation Front cell travelled to oxford armed with incendiary devices containing approximatley 11 litres of petrol. At app 11 pm they broke into oxford's universitys Hertford college Boat House and deployed the devices among the boats. Before leaving they re-padlocked the door and glued all the locks to avoid the possibility of people entering before the devices ignited. The reason for the attack was as follows: Oxford University's holdings now own the contract to build the South Parks lab, as far as The A.L F are concerned this means that Oxford University as a whole must accept the consequences.From here on nothing you own, rent or have dealings with is off limits until the project is scrapped, To warn builders and suppliers that they are going to get some, even if their involvement comes to light years later we will not let you offf the hook! This action is dedicated to Dave Blenkinsop, Keith Mann, Sarah Gisbourne and all the other brave animal liberationists presently incarcerated and to all our friends who in the face of mounting repressive anti protest legislation refuse to lie down.
• The Guardian (July 21, 2005): Animal rights extremists are claiming responsibility for an arson attack on an Oxford University boathouse which caused an estimated £500,000 worth of damage. more...
• London Times (July 21, 2005): AN ANIMAL RIGHTS group has said that it was behind an arson attack on an Oxford University boathouse, it emerged last night. more...
  
  

• ALF Communique: Received anonymously by activists in Spain:
  During the night of friday 8th of July we got into a fur farm close to Lavacolla, in Galicia. Our purpose was easy to understand: enpty it to close it. Empty it to give chance to 35.000 wild minks which were encaged in small and dirty cages, waiting to be murdered in a horrible way in the name of profit. Empty it to end this death camp forever...
  
  We got in, we opened every cage, we left some spray paint like "down the walls", "animal liberation now", "burn the prisons" and "abuser". We broke down the door that separated the minks from freedom. We are determined to end the fur industry, strike after strike, until the last farm is reduced to ashes, the last abuser is ruined and the last cage destroyed.
  
  We will NEVER forget their glance behind the bars... If you just see them as money, we will just see you as targets. Destroy every wall and viva la anarquía.
  
  Frente de Liberación Animal
  First Line Group.
  the orginal Spanish communique
  
  

• ALF Communique: "On Thursday 19th May the Animal Liberation Front planted an incendiary device under the car of Canaccord director Michael Kendall. The ALF estimates that this device blew his car up. Canaccord are HLS customer Phytopharm's biggest shareholders and have raised 10 million pounds for them. Bad mistake. If you support or raise funds for any company associated with HLS we will track you down, come for you and destroy your property by fire. You know the score. Phytopharm get out of HLS or see your share price crash and your supporters' property go up in flames. A new era has dawned for those who fund the abusers and raise funds for them to murder animals with. You too are on the hit list: you have been warned. Get out of the vivisection industry. Stay away from HLS. Stay away from Oxford University. Stay away from Newchurch. Let these companies go under or face the consequences. Animal Liberation Front"
• London Times (June 23, 2005): CANACCORD CAPITAL is reviewing its role as a broker to Phytopharm, one of Britain's best known biotech companies, after animal rights extremists targeted one of the stockbroker's top directors. more...
• BBC News (June 23, 2005): Canaccord Capital has quit as broker to the firm, after one of its bosses was the target of an incendiary device. more...
• The Business Report (June 24, 2005): Canaccord Capital will no longer work with UK biotech firm Phytopharm after animal rights activists firebombed a Canaccord executive's car. more...
• The Guardian (June 25, 2005): Animal rights activists have unleashed a new arson campaign in the run-up to the introduction of a law next month which could see them jailed for five years for economic sabotage. more...
• The Telegraph (June 25, 2005): Richard Dixey, the chief executive of Phytopharm, said yesterday that he was "frankly despairing", after the pharmaceutical company's broker resigned following a firebomb attack by animal rights activists. more...
• The Independent (June 26, 2005): The black Hyundai car was parked in the garage of Michael Kendall's home when it burst into flames, on the night of 26 May. more...
• The Guardian (June 26, 2005): "If attracting attention is part of the intent of an action ... then how better than in flames?" Keith Mann recently said. Jailed for seven years in the 90s for attempted arson, he cemented his place in animal rights folklore. Now, four years after his release, Mann, 39, a leading member of the Animal Liberation Front, is back in jail. more...
• icBerkshire (July 7, 2005): " A Family have been forced into hiding after they were targeted for a firebombing attack by animal rights extremists. Stockbroker Michael Kendall, his wife and their two children are understood to be staying at a secret location following the attack at their home in Winkfield. more...
• Hunts Post 24 (July 10, 2005): "NEW legislation to protect scientific researchers at work and at home against animal rights militants came into force on Friday. more...
  
  

• ALF Communiques: May 29th, 2005 (Moscow region, village Andreevka) - activists got to breeder farm. After destroying the door, they took away about 3000 mice and released them in high grass. They spoiled clothes, shoes, feed and put them on fire. The responsibility for this action took Animal Rights Militia (ARM). It was the first action of ARM in Russia. Russian Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group RALF SG contact: Web: aeliberation.net (in russian language) Email: aeinfo[at]aeliberation.net
  
  June 3th, 2005 (Moscow region, village Zverosovkhoz) - ALF members cut metal fence and got to fur farm 'Pushkinsky'. The cages were overcrowded with ferrets. Activists took away in bags more than 180 ferrets and released them far away from the fur farm in forest. Some of cages were destroyed. Slogan "Freedom to animals!" and "ALF" was left inside of fur farm.