Indian-American activist Priya Sawhney, who interrupted Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 on-stage talk, has been arrested on trespassing and burglary charges, according to media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou are the world\u2019s richest man. You\u2019re the President of Amazon and you can help the animals,\u201d shouted Sawhney, asking Bezos to stop the abuses of animals in California farms, the report said.Bezos and Jenny Freshwater, another Amazon executive on stage at the time, sat calmly as the woman was removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A judge in Las Vegas says a California animal rights activist can be freed from jail without bail pending her next court date on felony charges for approaching Bezos, the world\u2019s richest man, on a conference stage, according to a media report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sawhney, 30, rushed on stage during Amazon\u2019s \u201cre:MARS\u201d event here on Thursday and asked Bezos to do something about \u201cchicken farms\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sawhney evaded event security, as well as some of Bezos\u2019 personal detail, which costs a reported USD 1.6 million per year, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sawhney is due again in court July 15 on false identification and burglary charges. In Nevada, burglary relates to entering a building with intent to commit a felony, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sawhney is co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere, an international grassroots network of animal rights activists founded in 2013 in the San Francisco Bay Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Direct Action Everywhere animal rights group said it was protesting against what it claims is poor treatment of chickens at a farm in Petaluma Poultry, a California farm that supplies chicken and turkey to Amazon and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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