URGENT & TIME SENSITIVE - JAIL SUPPORT NEEDED NOW in NYC

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URGENT & TIME SENSITIVE
JAIL SUPPORT NEEDED NOW

ACTIVIST ARRESTED TODAY
IN NEW YORK CITY

Late this afternoon, Sunday January 24, 2010, an activist attending a
peaceful, quiet demonstration at the ASPCA was arrested for no reason at
all. The demonstration was over, bags were packed and NYPD officers led
by a Sergeant descended on the group which was in process of returning
to the subway.

Camille Hankins, organizer of the protest was told that she was being
arrested for violating a restraining order. After violating her rights
to privacy and dissatisfied that they were unable to make an arrest,
they turned their attention on a nearby activist, who expressed in a
calm quiet tone of voice that he was disappointed in the manner in which
New York City police were handling demonstrations. The activist, Isaac
Peter, is a visitor to New York City and he was merely expressing his
opinion. He was subsequently arrested for standing quietly on a New
York City sidewalk.

When a jail support team followed the arrested activist to the precinct,
they were lied to by the desk officer who told them that he would be
released later that evening. The activists who were sitting quietly in
the station reception area, were ordered to leave the building under the
implicit threat of arrest. Now we hear that Isaac is being transported
to The Tombs, New York's legendary and disgusting holding facility to be
arraigned in court tomorrow morning.

Please contact the police precinct where he is being unjustly held.
Tell them:

* you are concerned about the safety and disposition of prisoner
Isaac Peter
* ask that he be provided with vegan food (he has not eaten all day)
* ask them what the charges are and why he was arrested at a
peaceful, legal demonstration?
* ask when he is going to be released?
* ask where he is being held right now?

Please help send a message that they cannot use the arrest of peaceful
law abisding demonstrators just because they want to break up a
demonstration. Call now, Call often.

Contact information:

Inspector James W Murtagh
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs019pct.pdf>153
East 67th Street,
New York, NY, 10065

Precinct: (212) 452-0600

Community Affairs: (212) 452-0613

Please keep in touch with us and let us know if you find out anything.

For more info contact Win Animal Rights at: centcom@war-online.org
Call: 646.267.9934 or visit the WAR website at: http://war-online.org