Historical Ruling: Justice Recognizes Animals as “Sentient Beings”

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A woman was convicted by the Buenos Aires Justice for animal abuse in a case filed by the Fiscal Unit Specialized in Environmental Matters (UFEMA) in charge of prosecutor Blas Matías Michienzi. The sentence was handed down on March 31 by Judge María Laura Martínez Vega, holder of the Criminal, Contravention and Misdemeanour Court N°9.

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Buenos Aires, 7 April (NA) – La Justicia de Mendoza issued a ruling that promises to transform the legal board in matters of animal rights, after on Thursday Judge Gabriel Bragagnolo, of the Collegiate Criminal Court No. 2 of Las Heras, issued an effective sentence of two months and a day in prison for an aggressor of six dogs. For the first time in the province, a judicial decision has stopped considering animals as mere objects or "furniture g…