Browse old press releases from the Hunt Saboteurs Association and find out more about how we have saved lives and the barriers we have faced
HSA news release 20th November 2001 Hunt Sabs to disinfect the countryside! Despite being completely overlooked by the government’s veterinary risk assessment (to allow hunting to restart), Hunt Saboteurs are to offer their experience and knowledge of the countryside to help disinfect areas where hunts will be chasing the nation’s wildlife to exhaustion and death. […]
HSA news release 17th November 2001 Hunt Saboteurs Association letter to DEFRA 16th November 2001 Ms Patricia Schofield DEFRA Area 108 1A Page Street London SW1P 4PQ Dear Ms Schofield I write to advise you of the comments of the Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) on the Government’s proposals to allow the resumption of hunting with […]
HSA news release 21st September 2001 Animal Welfare campaigner beaten with baseball bats by thugs John Gill, an animal welfare and anti-snare campaigner from Castleside near Consett in Co Durham was yesterday viciously and cowardly attacked by 3 armed ‘men’ in his own home. He spent the day and night in the University Hospital, Durham […]
HSA news release 10th September 2001 Dyfed Powys Police Pay Hunt Protestors 21,000 Compensation For Wrongful Arrest A group of seven foxhunt protestors arrested whilst they were eating lunch in a minibus have each been paid £21,000 compensation by Dyfed Powys Police for wrongful arrest and for trespass to property. The group of 4 men […]
HSA news release 5th September 2001 It’s Official – Crown Prosecution Service say it is OK to try to kill Hunt Saboteurs The Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) today utterly condemned the ‘spineless’ decision of the Crown Prosecution Service to drop charges against a hunt supporter who drove over and almost killed an anti-hunt protester. Martin […]
Hunters and Shooters just wanna have FUN! Forget Foot & Mouth – the ‘Guardians of the Countryside’ want access The Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) today expressed its disappointment, although not surprise, at moves from both the hunting and shooting fraternities to gain access to the countryside despite the continuing Foot and Mouth ‘crisis’. The Countryside […]
HSA news release 31st December 1999 Countryside Alliance ‘truce’ classed as a joke Hunt Saboteur Attacked During Fox Rescue Hunt saboteurs today condemned the hunting fraternity for failing to abide by their own ‘truce’ following a violent attack on a saboteur. Saboteurs had successfully rescued a fox that had been badly mauled by hounds and […]
HSA news release 18th February 1998 A Hunt Saboteur from Sussex was the latest casualty in a war that is going on unreported in the British countryside. Today’s attack was at Heyshot, near Midhurst, W.Sussex. At approximately 12 noon today, a hunt rider with the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Foxhunt, rode deliberately into a small […]
HSA news release 7th October 1995 Hunt thugs on rampage againBritish Field Sports Society press spokesman arrested for assault Barely six weeks into the new cubhunting season, saboteurs across the country are again under attack from hunt thugs. In a morning of violence, balaclava-clad thugs at the Crawley and Horsham Foxhunt in Sussex smashed a […]
HSA news release 15th June 1995 The trial of two saboteurs charged with violent disorder after a demonstration against the Criminal Justice Act at the Essex Foxhunt last November ended in humiliation for Essex police today at Chelmsford Crown Court. The case against one man, Ken Edmundson, was thrown out of court two days ago […]
HSA news release 7th June 1995 Court case reveals off-duty cop took part in mob attack Northumbria police today suffered a humiliating defeat in a case of aggravated trespass against five hunt saboteurs heard at Hexham Magistrates Courts. The five saboteurs were arrested on 19th November 1994 at the Tynedale Foxhunt, about an hour after […]
HSA news release May 29th 1995 Ten saboteurs received hospital treatment in Dorset today after a terrifying ambush by hunt heavies at the Ytene Minkhunt. Twenty-three saboteurs had attended the hunt meet on the River Stour in Marnhull, near Shaftesbury, Dorset: only four escaped injury.
Criminal Justice Act results: Convicted – 7.1%; Dropped – 43.6% A dramatic new report on the first season of the implementation of the new offence of aggravated trespass created by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act shows the policy has been an expensive disaster.
HSA news release 18th March 1995 Ten saboteurs were arrested today in what campaigners are claiming was a carefully sprung trap by Sussex Police to “show them who’s boss”. Some fifteen saboteurs had held a peaceful banner demonstration at the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Foxhunt’s meet at the Ship Inn, Harting, near Midhurst, and had […]
HSA news release 8th April 1995 The hate campaign against a Kettering hunt saboteur continued with a sickening attack on his home last night in which the entrails of dead animals were dumped in his front garden, on his doorstep, and smeared over his motorbike.
Wildlife Action news release 30th March 1995 Forestry Commission HQ roof occupied in protest against buckhunts Four anti-bloodsports campaigners are currently occupying the roof of the Forestry Commission HQ in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, in protest at the Commission’s continued support of the New Forest Buckhounds .
HSA news release 10th March 1995 Campaigners look on in horror as hounds rip deer’s throat out For the second time in as many months, campaigners from the Wildlife Action group have captured the New Forest Buckhounds killing deer with appalling cruelty, breaking the terms of their Forestry Commission licence.
HSA news release 20th February 1995 Hunt thugs use “IRA-style punishment squads” in terror attacks on northwest saboteurs Hunt violence in the northwest took a sinister new turn over the weekend as masked thugs launched a wave of punishment attacks on anti-hunt activists in Manchester and Liverpool.
Kettering Hunt Saboteurs news release 11th February 1995 A hunt saboteur was taken to hospital in an ambulance today (Saturday, February 11, 1995) after being ridden down by a Master of Foxhounds at a joint meet of the Fitzwilliam Hunt and the Woodland Pytchley Hunt at Chapel End, Great Gidding, Northants.
Wildlife Action News Release 8th February 1995 Horror video lends fresh weight to call for hunt ban Campaigners could only watch in horror today as a foxhound was hit by a train which crashed into a pack of hounds chasing a fox up the middle of a main railway line. The hound was left bleeding […]
