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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
Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Conditions of Confinement, Prison Tourism/Consumerism. Location: United States of America.
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.

The commercial, created by Young & ...

 

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