{"id":12181,"date":"2013-12-03T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12181"},"modified":"2013-12-03T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T11:03:08","slug":"lawsuit-demands-legal-personhood-for-chimpanzees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12181","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit demands &#8216;legal personhood&#8217; for chimpanzees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/chimp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12182\" alt=\"chimp\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/chimp.jpg\" width=\"282\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>A US animal rights group has filed what it said is the first lawsuit seeking to establish the &#8220;legal personhood&#8221; of chimpanzees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The non-profit Nonhuman Rights Project asked a New York state court to declare a 26-year-old chimp named Tommy &#8220;a cognitively complex autonomous legal person with the fundamental legal right not to be imprisoned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lawsuit seeks a declaration that Tommy&#8217;s &#8220;detention&#8221; in a &#8220;small, dank, cement cage in a cavernous dark shed&#8221; in central New York is unlawful and demands his immediate release to a primate sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chimpanzees &#8220;possess complex cognitive abilities that are so strictly protected when they&#8217;re found in human beings,&#8221; Steven Wise, the president of Nonhuman Rights Project, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no reason why they should not be protected when they&#8217;re found in chimpanzees,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not certain that this new found right carries responsibility, and if this beast\/person could be found liable for damages it may cause.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its responsibilities in a civil society have not been laid out either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US animal rights group has filed what it said is the first lawsuit seeking to establish the &#8220;legal personhood&#8221; of chimpanzees. The non-profit Nonhuman Rights Project asked a New York state court to declare a 26-year-old chimp named Tommy &#8220;a cognitively complex autonomous legal person with the fundamental legal right not to be imprisoned.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lawsuit demands &#8216;legal personhood&#8217; for chimpanzees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[7703,7704,7702],"class_list":["post-12181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-legal-personhood-of-chimpanzees","tag-nonhuman-rights-project","tag-us-animal-rights-group"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/chimp.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12183,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12181\/revisions\/12183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}