Animal rights activists staged a nude protest Saturday in northeastern Barcelona to demonstrate against the torture and killing of animals to make fur coasts. 70 men and women curled up on the pavement outside Barcelona's City Hall.

The protest, staged by AnimaNaturalis and PETA international animal rights groups, was watched by several dozen passers-by. In a statement, AnimaNaturalis said millions of animals were captured, tortured and killed each year to make fur coats. In Spain alone, 26 million animals - among them rabbits, foxes, minks and lambs - were killed in 2003 to make coats, the group said.

"If people could see the animals in fur farms, they would never use a fur coat," AnimaNaturalis president Leonora Esquivel, said in the statement.