TITLE

Greenpeace acquitted in GM trial

PUB. DATE
January 2001
SOURCE
Countryside & Small Stock Journal;Jan/Feb2001, Vol. 85 Issue 1, p109
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports the acquittal of the environmental group Greenpeace from a criminal damage case in eastern England.
ACCESSION #
3883181

Tags: ACQUITTALS;  GREENPEACE International

 

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