NEW YORK, Dec 5: A US animal rights group on Monday filed what it said is the first lawsuit seeking to establish the ‘legal personhood’ of chimpanzees. The non-profit Nonhuman Rights Project asked a New York state court to declare a 26-year-old chimp named Tommy ‘a cognitively complex autonomous legal person with the fundamental legal right not to be imprisoned.’ (agencies)
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