CINCINNATI (AP) — A judge refused to dismiss burglary charges Wednesday against nine Greenpeace activists who staged an eye-catching protest involving a zip-lining tiger at Procter & Gamble’s headquarters in downtown Cincinnati.

Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler rejected arguments from defense attorneys that the activists were simply exercising their free speech rights when they slipped past P&G’s security on March 4 and used a zip line to unfurl giant banners from the consumer products company’s two towers as a helicopter filmed them.

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