Animal Rights Activists Arrested in Australia for Blocking Peak Hour Traffic

Animal Rights Activists Arrested in Australia for Blocking Peak Hour Traffic
Police move in on animal rights protesters who had blocked the intersections of Flinders and Swanston Street, in Melbourne, Australia, April 8, 2019. Ellen Smith /AAP Image/Reuters
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MELBOURNE—Australia police arrested 38 animal rights activists on April 8 after they blocked peak hour traffic in Melbourne in protests to mark the first anniversary of a film about factory farming.

The protests were part of a wave of action in three states, where activists targeted abattoirs in the middle of the night to call for an end to all animal farming.