Music icon Cher shared her delight after a Pakistani court ordered freedom for a lonely elephant, who had become the subject of a high-profile rights campaign backed by the US singer.
“We have just heard from Pakistan High Court Kaavan is free,” the singer and animal rights campaigner tweeted Thursday in capital letters, adding a string of emojis and saying she felt “sick”.Outrage over the treatment of Kaavan at the capital’s Islamabad Zoo went global several years ago with a petition garnering over 200,000 signatures after it emerged he was being chained up.
Pop star Cher had backed a high-profile rights campaign to fight for elephant. APA/AFP/File/GEORG HOCHMUTH Activists said he had insufficient shelter from Islamabad’s searing summer temperatures, which can rise to above 40 degrees Celsius . Pakistani elephant Kaavan is seen at the zoo in Islamabad in 2016, as activists have long called for his conditions to be improved. AFP/File/AAMIR QURESHI
His mate Saheli, who arrived also from Sri Lanka in 1990, died in 2012, and in 2015 it emerged that Kaavan was regularly being chained once more — for several hours a day.
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