About Open Rescue

The Rescue Teams

Raddningstjansten - The Liberation Service (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Website: www.raddningstjansten.org

The Rescue Service (Raddningstjansten) is a volunteer-run Swedish organisation working for the animals using nonviolence and civil disobedience. The organisation has conducted 16 actions for the animals since it was formed in 1999. Fourteen of these actions have been open rescues of factory farmed animals, primarily battery hens. Two of these actions have been the disarmament of slaughterhouse equipment and machinery used by the egg industry, where the activists remained on site to claim responsibility for their actions and explain why they believed they had a moral duty to disarm equipment used for the purposes of animal abuse. Several of these activists have received prison sentences. The actions carried out by The Rescue Service have been successful in liberating scores of animals from factory farms and placing them in caring sanctuaries, and in bringing the atrocities of the factory farming industry to public attention.

Raddningstjansten rescue directory

120 Hens Liberated in Largest Open Rescue Ever
may 2, 2004 action 16

39 Hens Rescued
april 5, 2004 action 15

Swedish Activists Shut Down Egg Factory
april 27, 2003 action 14

102 hens rescued by Swedish Liberation Service
april 14, 2003 action 13

Stopped by Police
october 11, 2002 action 12

17 hens rescued
august 12, 2002 action 11

38 hens rescued
june 2, 2002 action 10

12 hens rescued
april 14, 2002 action 9

16 hens rescued
march 27, 2002 action 8

21 dogs rescued
march 17, 2002 action 7

Slakteri avrustat
august 5, 2001 action 6

6 hens rescued
february 21, 2001 action 5

3 hens rescued
dececmber 14, 2000 action 4

36 hens rescued
may 7, 2000 action 3

5 hens rescued
february 15, 2000 action 2

24 hens rescued
october 28, 1999 action 1

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