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Lisbon Bans Bullfighting
Friday, March 13th, 2009

Lisbon - A city in northern Portugal has become the first in the
country to ban bullfighting, the authorities announced on Tuesday,
winning cheers from animal rights activists.

The city council in Viana do Castelo, which has a socialist majority,
voted in favour of the ban on Friday, officials said.

"The defence of animal rights is not compatible with spectacles that
torture and impose unjustifiable suffering," said city mayor Defensor
Moura, adding he had received more than 1 000 congratulatory e-mails
from around the world.

Anti-bullfighting and animal rights activists hailed the move as
setting "an example of modernity" they hoped would be followed.

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http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2479298,00.html

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