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HSA news release 23rd March 2003 Huntsmen create their own war as they attack saboteurs On one of the last hunting days of this season, and whilst thousands marched for peace in London, hunt suppporters yesterday declared their own war as they attacked hunt saboteurs at various locations around the country. At the Woodland Pytchley […]
HSA news release 1st February 2003 Surrey Union Hunt – One Law For Them And Another One For Us The Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) today revealed that a hunt saboteur attacked by hunt supporters at the Surrey Union hunt on Saturday (1 February) near Guildford suffered a fractured cheek bone in 2 places. The hunt […]
HSA news release 19th January 2003 Chucking taxpayers’ money down the pan… We are continuing to highlight the extraordinary relationships between the police and foxhunts in Surrey, as new information comes to light… On 3 separate occasions in January (2003), police officers from Surrey have offered financial inducements to animal rights campaigners in return for […]
HSA news release 30th December 2002 East Surrey, Saturday 28th December 2002: 40 Police (including 2 mounted) 36 hunt riders 3 monitors No Sabs… And a rapidly decreasing budget! This was not a scene from a Benny Hill TV show – it was actually what happened at last Saturday’s meet of the old surrey and […]
Children should not be encouraged to Kill at Christmas The Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) has branded as “sickening indoctrination” a Countryside Alliance (CA) initiative called ‘Take a Young Person Shooting this Christmas’. A mailing intercepted by the HSA encouraged CA members to “Give shooting lessons as a Christmas present, hold a young person’s drive, ask […]
HSA news release 30th November 2002 Body of fox “arrested” after protestors attacked “Modern Hunting is not cruel and has nothing to hide” Today a fox that had been killed by the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Hunt near Rowner farm, Billingshurst, West Sussex was driven away in a police van after hunt saboteurs who had […]
HSA news release 12th November 2002 Hunt breaches own Code of Conduct and attacks protestors Hunt saboteurs in Surrey told today how they were attacked by riders and a gang of terriermen and hunt stewards at the Surrey Union Hunt as they tried to stop them killing foxes. 3 saboteurs attended the meet at Capel […]
HSA news release 5th November 2002 Rocket attack on Hunt Saboteur’s home In the early hours of this morning, just after midnight, a hunt saboteur’s house in Dorchester, Dorset, had an incendiary device fired through the letterbox. The device, believed to be a “rocket” firework, let off a loud explosion waking neighbours and filled the […]
HSA news release 27th October 2002Pro-hunt police appear content to torture fox lovers rather than catch serial rapist Hunt Saboteurs are blasting the level of police resources directed at them during the Opening Meet of the Surrey Union Hunt at Ockley near Dorking, yesterday (Sat 26 Oct). Surrey Police have already had a budget cut […]
HSA news release 19th October 2002 Today hunt saboteurs were the victims of 3 serious violent attacks: A Hampshire hunt saboteur was almost crushed under the wheels of a Land Rover as he fell while being chased around a field at the Hampshire Hunt. Long Sutton, Hampshire, 8.45 a.m. A Sheffield hunt saboteurs’ windscreen was […]
HSA news release 5th October 2002 DEER ATTACKED AND DISEMBOWELLED Hunt saboteurs today (5 Oct) looked on in horror as hounds from the Old Berkshire Hunt ripped apart a Muntjac deer in a field at Westcot, Oxfordshire . The hunt had met at Kingston Lisle near Wantage, Oxon at 7.30 a.m. to hunt young fox […]
HSA news release 28th September 2002 Hunt Master pays for new windscreen on Hunt Saboteurs’ van – ‘the convenient way to buy justice in Northamptonshire!’ The Master of the Pytchley Hunt was left £225 out of pocket earlier today (28 Sept) after his huntsman and whipper-in smashed the windscreen on a Hunt Saboteurs van. Huntsmen […]
HSA news release 12th August 2002 Inglorious Twelfth faces opposition from Hunt Saboteurs Hunt Saboteurs will be active on the Grouse Moors of the North on the 12th August as the Grouse shooting season opens. Past years have seen shooters staying away from the moors on the Twelfth itself following successful actions organised by the […]
HSA news release 1st August 2002 Boot on the other foot – Hunt Saboteurs to pursue Scottish huntsmen? Hunt Saboteurs in Scotland today prepared themselves for a new role as the Scottish Law to Ban Hunting came into force. They previously had to run the gauntlet of the police – and irate hunt supporters – […]
HSA news release 21st June 2002 Hunt Supporter guilty, but given “slap on wrist” after Attack on Policeman and Protestor. Hunt saboteurs in East Anglia are fuming after a hunt supporter guilty of assaulting a female protestor AND a policeman was given a 12 month bind over today in Bury St Edmunds. “This amounts to […]
HSA news release 16th June 2002 They must think you are stupid! Countryside Alliance exaggerate events to fit their agenda The Countryside Alliance (CA) was accused of trying to hijack the democratic process by releasing a fantastic ‘News Release’ today. The release urged people to contact their MPs and contained gross exaggerations of a minor […]
HSA news release 4th May 2002HUNT STEWARD GUILTY OF CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO PROTESTOR’S RADIO An unemployed gamekeeper was given a 6 month conditional discharge and ordered to pay costs at Corby Magistrates court on Friday (3 May) after he pleaded guilty to smashing a hunt saboteur’s CB radio. Mr W. Playford was arrested at a […]
HSA news release 30th March 2002 Huntsman Arrested After Attacks on Hunt Saboteurs Is this what they mean by a ‘summer of discontent’ in the countryside? A huntsman was arrested today (30 March 2002) after a series of violent attacks on demonstrators at the Essex Farmers & Union Hunt. The hunt met at Patten’s Farm, […]
HSA news release 27th March 2002 HUNT SABOTEURS ATTACKED WITH PICK AXE AND IRON BAR Hunt Saboteurs from the South West were today considering themselves lucky not to have been killed after they were attacked with an iron bar, whips and a pick axe at a joint meet of 2 hunts in Cornwall. 10 activists […]
HSA news release 2nd March 2002Huntsmen take out anger on protestors – Another Saboteur badly injured The Hunt Saboteurs Association is claiming that the prospect of a ban on hunting has caused an upsurge in violence against its members following another violent incident, this time in Yorkshire. Hunt Saboteurs from Leeds and Sheffield were present […]
