South Korean activist sentenced
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:
SEOUL--Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth founder So-Youn Park was on August 30, 2012 sentenced to serve a year on probation for “special larceny,” an offense in South Korean law similar to violation of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in the U.S.Park, said a CARE prepared statement, “witnessed five dogs and eight chickens miserably abandoned while walking by a farm. She visited the farm three times with other CARE animal rights activists, but they could not find any trace of food or the owner. They rescued the dogs and chickens from the cages on November 26, 2011. Days later, upon discovering the dogs and chickens were gone, the owner of the farm called the police. The farm owner admitted that the dogs were raised for slaughter and that the environment in which they were kept was inadequate,” CARE said, but this was not illegal and had no bearing on the charge against Park. Read more