New York court: chimps are not people
Judge Barbara Jaffe, after a four-month trial, ruled that shanza is not human. They cannot exercise the right of habeas corpus - the presumption of illegality of detention. The judge noted that someday attempts to endow chimpanzees with human rights can be crowned with success.
Steven Wise, head of the Nonhuman Rights Project, promised to appeal to release Hercules and Leo from the University of Stony Brook.
A thirty-five-year-old male miniature chimpanzee (bonobo) named Kanzi is comparable to a three-year-old child in intelligence. Kanzi understands two thousand words. Chimpanzees, using a keyboard with lexigrams , asked his teacher, Dr. Sue Savage-Rambo, to teach him to light a fire in order to cook food on it.
The Nonhuman Rights Project Society has been trying since 2013 to free Hercules and Leo from the research center of the University of New York at Stony Brook. In April 2015, for the first time in US history, a pair of chimpanzees got human rights. Judge Barbara Jaffe ruled that chimpanzees, which are contained in the University’s research center, have the human right to habeas corpus. The Habeas Corpus Act, adopted by the English Parliament in 1679, provides a legal basis for the presumption of unlawful detention, this principle has been in effect since the seventeenth century in American law.
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Prior to this decision, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed relevant claims in three lower courts. Human rights society representatives convinced the judge that Hercules and Leo are smart enough to endow them with basic human rights.
The next day, April 21, the judge changed her decision, deleting the wording “habeas corpus”. She scheduled a hearing with representatives from the University of Stony Brook and the Nonhuman Rights Project on May 6.
The following hearings took place only on 27 May. The judge did not make a final decision on the case. The lawyer of the Nonhuman Rights Project insisted that chimpanzees are able to think critically, make independent decisions and have self-awareness, they remember the past and plan their lives. The lawyer asked the court to give chimpanzees the right to habeas corpus in order to free Hercules and Leo and send them to a Florida reserve.
On July 30, regular hearings took place. The judge ruled that chimpanzees cannot be equated to humans: “They have no legal rights other than those that protect them from physical violence and other ill-treatment,” TASS quoted . Barbara Jaffe noted that “attempts to extend legal rights to chimpanzees can be understood, someday they may even be crowned with success.”
Steven Wise, head of the Nonhuman Rights Project, promised to appeal to release Hercules and Leo from the University of Stony Brook.
A thirty-five-year-old male miniature chimpanzee (bonobo) named Kanzi is comparable to a three-year-old child in intelligence. Kanzi understands two thousand words. Chimpanzees, using a keyboard with lexigrams , asked his teacher, Dr. Sue Savage-Rambo, to teach him to light a fire in order to cook food on it.
The Nonhuman Rights Project Society has been trying since 2013 to free Hercules and Leo from the research center of the University of New York at Stony Brook. In April 2015, for the first time in US history, a pair of chimpanzees got human rights. Judge Barbara Jaffe ruled that chimpanzees, which are contained in the University’s research center, have the human right to habeas corpus. The Habeas Corpus Act, adopted by the English Parliament in 1679, provides a legal basis for the presumption of unlawful detention, this principle has been in effect since the seventeenth century in American law.
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Prior to this decision, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed relevant claims in three lower courts. Human rights society representatives convinced the judge that Hercules and Leo are smart enough to endow them with basic human rights.
The next day, April 21, the judge changed her decision, deleting the wording “habeas corpus”. She scheduled a hearing with representatives from the University of Stony Brook and the Nonhuman Rights Project on May 6.
The following hearings took place only on 27 May. The judge did not make a final decision on the case. The lawyer of the Nonhuman Rights Project insisted that chimpanzees are able to think critically, make independent decisions and have self-awareness, they remember the past and plan their lives. The lawyer asked the court to give chimpanzees the right to habeas corpus in order to free Hercules and Leo and send them to a Florida reserve.
On July 30, regular hearings took place. The judge ruled that chimpanzees cannot be equated to humans: “They have no legal rights other than those that protect them from physical violence and other ill-treatment,” TASS quoted . Barbara Jaffe noted that “attempts to extend legal rights to chimpanzees can be understood, someday they may even be crowned with success.”
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/365981/
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