Indian-American Activist Priya Sawhney Who Yelled At Jeff Bezos Arrested

Las Vegas: Indian-American activist Priya Sawhney, who interrupted Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos’ on-stage talk, was arrested on trespassing and burglary charges. Sawhney, 30, rushed on stage during Amazon’s “re:MARS” event here on Thursday and asked Bezos to do something about “chicken farms”. “You are the world’s richest man. You’re the President of Amazon and you can help the animals,” shouted Priya Sawhney, asking Bezos to stop the abuses of animals in California farms. According to an AP report, Sawhney’s next court hearing is on July 15. Sawhney is co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere (DXE), an international grassroots network of animal rights activists founded in 2013 in the San Francisco Bay Area. (IANS)

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