Animal Rights activist Camille Marino was arrested on Saturday, Feb. 4th

Animal Rights activist Camille Marino was arrested on Saturday, Feb. 4th, while attending a peaceful anti-vivisection demonstration, and commemoration of two monkeys who were tortured to death, at the University of Florida. A passionate and uncompromising animal advocate, Camille is now in the process of being extradited to Detroit, MI. She is scheduled to appear in court this week on charges related to her campaign against notorious vivisectionist, Donal O’Leary, a researcher at Wayne State University.

For over two decades, Donal O’Leary’s experiments have been found by The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) to be in “serious violation” of the Animal Welfare Act (USA). The PCRM has asked federal regulators to investigate the private laboratory of Prof. O’Leary, for his ongoing torture of dogs, which the PCRM describe in their Petition for Enforcement as “unrelieved agony”. Please take a minute to let Allan Gilmour, president of Wayne State University, know you want him to immediately halt the use of dogs in the university’s inhumane heart experiments using PCRM’s online form.

Outraged by the dogs’ terrible suffering, Camille posted news and details of Prof. O’Leary’s heinous experiments on her website; O’Leary then sought – and won – a court order for their removal. Ms. Marino was also ordered by the court “not to post anything about [O'Leary] on websites or other social media sites”. Given that details of O’Leary’s personal information could be easily obtained from elsewhere on the internet, and that published media reports of his atrocities were readily available online, the ruling is absurd. More importantly, it was – and is – a direct violation of Camille’s constitutional rights under the First Amendment.

The following is an example of what Donal O’Leary did, with American tax dollars, to one sad, abandoned and frightened ‘shelter’ dog, a Dalmatian named Queenie:

“According to medical records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Queenie’s chest was cut open so experimenters could install devices inside her. After a second major surgery to implant more instruments, she was forced to run dozens of treadmill experiments with catheters protruding from her body and incisions leaking bodily fluids, causing pain and distress. Hypertension was induced by reduction of blood flow to her kidneys. On June 29, 2010, Queenie — a former companion animal obtained from a Michigan animal shelter — was killed in the laboratory, after one of the devices broke and retracted into her body.” http://www.pcrm.org/media/news/dogs-unlawful-heart-experiments-wayne-state

Camille is currently being held at the Alachua County Jail in Gainesville, Florida. She is classified as a maximum security prisoner, awaiting extradition. There is a “no bond” order in place since she is a felony fugitive. Once in Michigan, she may well face additional charges relating to her campaign to expose the barbaric and sadistic acts inflicted on innocent animals by Donal O’Leary. We will not give up our fight for justice for these animals, or for justice for Camille! It is the vivisectors, like O’Leary, who are the real criminals…the real terrorists…and it is they who must be brought to justice!

We fear that Camille is looking at a long, costly, and protracted trial. The vivisection complex is comprised of industry, corporations, law and government. She is going to need our full support in taking on this all-powerful conglomerate, so please help by publicizing her case, exposing the evils of vivisection, and donating generously to her legal defense fund!

Camille Marino
# AS012MNI001261
Alachua County Sherrif’s
Office, DOJ
3333 NE 39th Avenue
Gainesville FL 32609



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