{"id":780213,"date":"2026-01-05T08:17:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=780213"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:46:26","slug":"rescue-on-trial-the-right-to-rescue-and-voluntary-prosecution-in-animal-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=780213","title":{"rendered":"Rescue on Trial: The &#8216;Right to Rescue&#8217; and voluntary prosecution in animal advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><strong>What happens when an act most people instinctively recognise as compassionate\u2014removing an animal from obvious suffering\u2014becomes the basis for prosecution? And what does it reveal about the law when animal advocates face criminal charges, while the underlying cruelty often remains structurally insulated from accountability?<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>ICARE ANIMALS:<\/strong> What happens when an act most people instinctively recognise as compassionate\u2014removing an animal from obvious suffering\u2014becomes the basis for prosecution? And what does it reveal about the law when animal advocates face criminal charges, while the underlying cruelty often remains structurally insulated from accountability?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In ICARE\u2019s latest seminar on the right to rescue &amp; voluntary prosecution in animal advocacy, moderated by Dr Anna Caramuru P. Aubert, Professor Matthew Liebman, Professor Justin Marceau, and animal rights lawyer and activist Wayne Hsiung mapped the legal and strategic terrain of open rescue prosecutions with remarkable clarity. <a href=\"https:\/\/icareanimals.substack.com\/p\/rescue-on-trial-the-right-to-rescue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IX_ENPGW8gI?si=SGtFE6_EcDT95HXA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when an act most people instinctively recognise as compassionate\u2014removing an animal from obvious suffering\u2014becomes the basis for prosecution? And what does it reveal about the law when animal advocates face criminal charges, while the underlying cruelty often remains structurally insulated from accountability? ICARE ANIMALS: What happens when an act most people instinctively recognise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":780220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,21,23,25],"tags":[26,27,30,31,35,36,37,38],"class_list":["post-780213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection","tag-sentience","tag-speciesism","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780213","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=780213"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780219,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780213\/revisions\/780219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/780220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}