Mahmood wins vote to ban animal testing lab protests

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"Campaigners are accusing the government of taking away the fundamental right to protest peacefully after it made non-violent demonstrations at animal-testing facilities a criminal offence. In a change to the law that was not part of a Bill before Parliament, Labour has outlawed protests such as Camp Beagle in Cambridgeshire, where activists have staged vigils non-stop for nearly five years outside a centre that breeds beagles for laboratory testing."

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