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Charlie the chimpanzee, rests in his cage on April 14, 2014, in the town of Aley in Mount Lebanon, southeast of Beirut, after being confiscated from a zoo on April 12, and placed in Animals Lebanons care. Charlie, nine-years-old, was smuggled into Lebanon in 2005 and sold from a pet shop before ending up in Animal City zoo. The Ministry of Agriculture declared in 2006 that he was brought into the country without a legal permit for his importation. An attempted confiscation in early 2006 failed after the zoo removed the chimp the day before the action was to take place. Today he is in the care of Animals Lebanon which recently took up the case to free him. (Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP Photo)
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