2015 Event Animal rights activists lose a case to free two chimpanzees being held for research purposes; the activists argued that the animals are highly intelligent and should be treated as humans with similar legal rights 2015 Event Two animal rights activists are placed under house arrest, awaiting trial for acts of terrorism against the fur industry; in 2013, Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane released minks from mink farms and vandalized fur businesses across the U.S. 2014 Event The last protest camp has been removed in Hong Kong; activists staged several camps to demand the right to free elections rather than control of candidates and elections by the Chinese government 2013 Event Republican Representative Ted Cruz urged grass-roots activists join him in the fight to defund The Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare 2012 Event In the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C., Occupy DC activists are prohibited from camping in Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square 2011 Event U.S. company Hewlett-Packard adds Ralph Whitworth from Relational Investors to it's corporate-government activists on its board of directors 2011 Event Amid unrest in the Mideast, activists claim China has launched the largest crackdown on dissenters in recent years 2011 Event In Tokyo, anti-nuclear activists rally, demanding change in Japan's nuclear industry 2011 Event In the People's Republic of China, the call for a 'Jasmine Revolution' spreads online as authorities hunt down political activists 2010 Event Britain's Labor Party leader Ed Miliband launches a review of the British Labor Party, calling upon activists to help make it the 'People's Party' once again 2010 Event Twenty-three Shia Muslim activists are charged with terrorism and attempting to overthrow the government of Bahrain 1996 Death Murtaza Bhutto, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court, dies at 42 in Karachi, Pakistan, shot dead along with six other activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party 1981 Event Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists 1981 Death Bobby Sands, IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike 1962 Event 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia 1905 Event Black intellectuals and activists organize Niagara movement 1644 Event Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
