{"id":749649,"date":"2017-12-15T20:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=749649"},"modified":"2017-12-15T20:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:02:38","slug":"speciesist-new-york-court-denies-freedom-and-personhood-to-captive-chimpanzees-tommy-and-kiko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=749649","title":{"rendered":"Speciesist New York court denies freedom and personhood to captive chimpanzees Tommy and Kiko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JONATHAN STEMPEL:<\/strong> <em>\u2018Chimpanzees do not deserve the same rights as people, a New York state appeals court unanimously concluded\u2026 and refused to order the release of two of the animals to a primate sanctuary. The 5-0 decision by the Appellate Division in Manhattan is the latest defeat for the Nonhuman Rights Project and its lawyer Steven Wise in a long debate over whether caged chimpanzees are actually legal \u201cpersons\u201d entitled like humans to bodily liberty. Citing experts like primatologist Jane Goodall, the Nonhuman Rights Project said chimpanzees and humans share many behavioral, cognitive and social capabilities. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>It said this entitled chimpanzees to many of the same rights, and sought \u201chabeas corpus\u201d relief to win freedom for Tommy and Kiko, each held by a private owner in upstate New York. But the shared capabilities \u201cdo not translate to a chimpanzee\u2019s capacity or ability, like humans, to bear legal duties, or to be held legally accountable for their actions,\u201d Justice Troy Webber wrote for the appeals court\u2026 The Nonhuman Rights Project is reviewing the decision, which upheld rulings by state Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe in Manhattan. \u201cThis is not going to change without a struggle,\u201d Wise said in a statement. \u201cWe remain confident that Tommy\u2019s and Kiko\u2019s fundamental right to bodily liberty will be recognized\u201d.\u2019<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-new-york-chimpanzees\/chimps-are-not-people-cannot-be-freed-from-custody-new-york-court-idUSKBN18Z2LT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">SOURCE\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6lK6sE8wMwA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JONATHAN STEMPEL: \u2018Chimpanzees do not deserve the same rights as people, a New York state appeals court unanimously concluded\u2026 and refused to order the release of two of the animals to a primate sanctuary. The 5-0 decision by the Appellate Division in Manhattan is the latest defeat for the Nonhuman Rights Project and its lawyer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,21,23],"tags":[34,37],"class_list":["post-749649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-rights","tag-personhood","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749651,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749649\/revisions\/749651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/749650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}