A couple of months back, I blogged about the news that biologist Marc van Roosmalen had been jailed by the Brazilian authorities for 16 years for allegedly failing to apply for a license to keep 28 monkeys at his home. Well, there’s some good news; he’s apparently been freed from jail while awaiting his appeal to come to trial.
I still think that there is something odd going on. Van Roosmalen doesn’t deny that he was looking after the 28 monkeys, but he claims that it was the Brazilian authorities themselves who asked him to do so after they had been confiscated from poachers… I also notice that the Dutch authorities are claiming that because van Roosmalen has been naturalised as a Brazilian citizen, they can’t do anything for him. Odd, since van Roosmalen still holds a valid Dutch passport, and a Brazilian living in the Netherlands can hold dual Dutch and Brazilian nationality…
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