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US animal rights activist jailed for 13 days after walking calf along Red Square

Last year, the activist resided in Warsaw where she kept a pet lamb, and back in 2019 she rescued a pig in London and kept it in her apartment

MOSCOW, February 1. /TASS/. An American animal rights activist has been jailed for 13 days for resisting arrest after she was walking a calf along Red Square, the press service of Moscow’s Tverskoy district court told TASS on Wednesday.

Alicia Day, 34, was also fined 20,000 rubles ($286) for walking the calf she had purchased online and shouting the slogan "Animals are not food" in the capital’s central square where any public events are prohibited.

According to the case file, Day pled guilty but claimed she had not pursued any political purposes.

The activist who entered Russia on a tourist visa on January 21 told TASS earlier she just wanted to save the calf from slaughter. "I bought it so they wouldn't eat it later. And I wanted to show him the capital, it's very beautiful," she said.

Day also said she kept seven piglets and three calves at her shelter, including the one she was detained with.

Last year, the activist resided in Warsaw where she kept a pet lamb, and back in 2019 she rescued a pig in London and kept it in her apartment.