US national arrested for walking ‘Dr Calf' in Red Square
Moscow police told the media the woman paraded a calf while chanting “animals are not food”
A court in Moscow has sentenced a US citizen who walked a calf in Red Square on Tuesday to 13 days of administrative arrest and a fine. The woman is said to be an animal rights activist, and made her appearance in the heart of the Russian capital, apparently aiming to persuade people to go vegan.
Alicia Day, 34, was accused of staging an unauthorized protest that obstructed the movement of pedestrians, as well as resisting police.
On top of the administrative arrest, which implies a brief jail term, she was ordered to pay a fine of 20,000 rubles .
“ The US national, who is a vegetarian and animal rights activist, was walking in Red Square... using a calf as visual propaganda and shouting out the slogan ‘animals are not food', ” the judge said Wednesday, as quoted by Russian media.
The offender offered a different version of events. Day told journalists she bought the animal on the ad website Avito, and named it...
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