article_snippet: Green Party is calling for the Human Rights Act to be extended to include animals so that killers and kidnappers of whales, dolphins and apes will face the same jail sentences as human murderers.
article_snippet: Likening the killing of sea creatures and monkeys to that of humans, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett urged the law be changed to ensure anyone found guilty of such crimes against animals face a prison sentence.
article_snippet: she proposal would see the Human Rights Act extended to protect 'all sentient life forms'.
article_snippet: Plans to extend the Human Rights act, which states that 'no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment'  would mean anyone killing, torturing or 'kidnapping' dolphins, whales, apes and elephants would occur for equivalent crimes committed against humans.
article_snippet: Equal rights: Under The Green Party's plans killers of dolphins and whales would face jail sentences .
article_snippet: The Green Party plans to extend Article Five of the UN Declaration on Human Rights, banning 'inhuman' treatment, to all sentient life forms .
article_snippet: 1) Article Five of the UN Declaration on Human Rights, banning 'inhuman' treatment, is extended to all sentient life forms.
article_snippet: The same prison sentences for the murder and kidnap of humans will apply to crimes involving elephants, monkeys and whales.
highlights_snippet: Animals to be given full human rights in plans considered by Green Party .
  
highlights_snippet: Killers and kidnappers of sea creatures and animals would face jail .
  