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From: "bannerheather" (bannerheather@clara.net)
Subject: ARRESTED FOR ASKING FOR JUSTICE
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:59:23 -0000

PEACE PROTESTER ARRESTED FOR ASKING FOR JUSTICE IN COURT

This morning at Helensburgh District Court Angie Zelter of the Trident Ploughshares campaign was arrested for 'Contempt of Court'.

She was appearing for trial resulting from a protest in August against the Trident nuclear weapons base at Faslane. Before the trial started she challenged the competency of the court to hear her case. She said that as the District Court did not recognise International Law, her defence could not be heard in full.

Angie said 'I can't go into the witness box and tell the whole truth if you say my truth is irrelevant. At the moment a Russian journalist is in prison for telling the truth about his country dumping radioactive waste in the sea around Japan. You are treating me in just the same way. What kind of democracy is that? If you can't give me justice here then I might as well leave'

Angie then got up to leave. The magistrate Mr McPhail JP said that he found her in contempt of court and ordered her to be taken into custody. The court was asked to rise for the magistrate to leave but everyone in the public gallery remained seated to register their solidarity with Angie. Eventually the magistrate had to leave with no-one standing for him.

Angie Zelter is presently in custody at Dumbarton Police Station.

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WEDNESDAY 27th January 1999

Trident Ploughshares 2000
42-46 Bethel Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1NR, UK
tel + 44 (0) 1603 611953
fax + 44 (0) 1603 666879
e-mail: tp2000@gn.apc.org
www: http://www.gn.apc.org/tp2000
www: http://www.motherearth.org

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Nuclear weapons are immoral, dangerous, polluting, a terrible waste of resources and were found to be generally illegal by the International Court of Justice on 8th July 1996.


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