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Josh Ellerman  

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  • aka Douglas Joshua Ellerman In 1998, 19-year-old Josh Ellerman, a radical animal rights activist, received a seven-year prison sentence for his participation in an alleged Animal Liberation Front (ALF) attack—one of the toughest sentences ever given to an animal rights activists in the United States. His case, along with that of his brother, Clinton Colby Ellerman, marked the beginning of a crackdown on animal rights activists. [Source: Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Ellerman, Josh (1979–)]

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