Please help free Jimmy, the 24 years old chimp, from the Zoo

This male chimpanzee, 24 years old, is living his life alone and having a miserable life in a Zoo in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Activists made a claim to the brazilian justice, by means of an habeas corpus, a legal instrument used to set people in liberty. Their request was denied, allegedly because they do not recognize such possibility for a non human being.Closing their eyes for the content of the claim,  The Court in Rio de Janeiro denied the chance provided and offered by the ONG for Jimmy to live in a sanctuary, where he would given adequate treatment and proper conditions of living.http://videos.r7.com/justica-nega-habeas-corpus-para-chimpanze-jimmy-em-niteroi-rj-/idmedia/a403e684488df54ac2c05be6bfc9a798.htmlThis poor creature, Jimmy, a sencient being, exhibits all the evident signs of deep stress due to his long lasting isolation and lack of space and natural life.Please sign this protest so that the brazilian authorities may review their former decision and give him at last  a chance of  dignity and welfare.
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