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7-up To Pull TV Ad Under Pressure from Human Rights Groups
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2002, page 13
Under pressure from Stop Prisoner Rape, a nonprofit human rights organization, and nearly 100 other human rights, HIV/AIDS, prisoner rights, and sexual violence organizations, Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. has decided to stop airing a national television commercial that makes light of rape in prison.
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Conditions of Confinement,
Prison Tourism/Consumerism.
Location:
United States of America.
The commercial, created by Young & ...
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