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Rohan Bopanna urges fans to stop cockfighting

Updated on: 20 July,2016 08:30 AM IST  | 
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As part of an ad campaign for PETA, Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna has urged his fans to stay away from cockfighting, a blood sport in which roosters are placed in a ring and forced to fight to death

Rohan Bopanna urges fans to stop cockfighting

Rohan Bopanna

New Delhi: As part of an ad campaign for PETA, Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna has urged his fans to stay away from cockfighting, a blood sport in which roosters are placed in a ring and forced to fight to death.


Rohan Bopanna
Rohan Bopanna


Bopanna, who will be representing India in men's and mixed doubles at the upcoming Rio Olympic Games, starred in a brand new campaign for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India.


Posing with rescued rooster Smack, he appears next to the words 'Tennis Is a Sport Cockfighting Is Not'. The visual for the campaign was shot by ace photographer Sam Mohan. In December 2014, Bopanna had caged himself holding a sign that proclaims 'Try to Relate to Their Fate. Say No to Cockfighting', as part of a similar ad campaign.

In the same year, the Supreme Court had ruled in favour of PETA India against the use of animals in certain so-called sports.

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