Greg Avery

Who is Greg Avery?

Greg Avery is a British animal rights activist. He is chiefly known as a founding member of several influential animal rights campaigns — focusing on opposition to the animal testing industry — that have dramatically altered the nature of the animal rights movement in the UK. His latest involvement is with Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, an international campaign to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences, an animal-testing company based in the UK and US. The Guardian describes Avery as the "de facto leader" of SHAC.

Avery is currently serving a nine-year jail sentence after his 2008 conviction on charges of conspiracy to blackmail in connection with the SHAC campaign. Avery and six other activists convicted with him, including his second wife Natasha Dellemagne and his first wife Heather Nicholson, are alleged by police to be key figures within the Animal Liberation Front.