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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The Web site run by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty offers undercover video of beagles being slapped, force-fed and otherwise manhandled, allegedly by workers at a research lab that uses animals to test the safety of drugs and chemicals.
Federal prosecutors say the site did more than present the darker side of animal testing: They allege it also incited violence against the testing company, Huntingdon Life Sciences, and its employees.
Both sides are facing off in a courtroom this week, in what the animal activists call an exercise in free speech and what the government portrays as domestic terrorism.
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