Anti-fur campaigner faces prison over seal cull film

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Unbelievable. I'd be very tempted to contribute if there's a fighting fund for this court case....

Anti-fur campaigner faces prison over seal cull film
A British animal rights campaigner has vowed to go to prison in Canada rather than pay a fine if he is convicted of breaking rules governing filming of the country's annual seal cull.

Mark Glover, campaigns director of the Nottingham-based Respect for Animals group, will appear before a judge in the remote Magdalen Islands on Thursday with four other activists to face a charge that they breached a 10-metre exclusion zone while filming hunters shooting and clubbing seals on ice floes in the Gulf of St Lawrence.

The annual cull of up to 350,000 seals by around 2,000 hunters has been the subject of a long-running battle by animal rights groups seeking a ban. The Canadian government insists the hunt is "tightly regulated and humane" but opponents claim the use of sharpened clubs, hakapiks, to kill seals is cruel, with many hunters failing to ensure the animals are dead before skinning them.

Independent:Anti-fur campaigner faces prison over seal cull film