Eight people charge under SOCPA 128 and Criminal Damage after action at American airbase in Suffolk.
On Thursday the 1st eight people were charged under SOCPA 128 and with Criminal Damage following an action last October.
The eight accused had broken into RAF (it is realy a USAF base) Lakenheath in Suffolk and chained themselves to the gate of a munition dump where cluster bombs had been seen earlier. During that time the F-15E planes were being deployed to Iraq.
The base is also believed to be home to 110 B61 nuclear bombs.
Melanie Harrison, one of the accused says: "It is absolutely shocking that these laws, supposedly directed at stopping terrorism, are being used against 8 non-violent peace activists trying to uphold humanitarian and international law."
They will appear at Bury St Edmunds court next Tuesday at 11:30 for the plead hearing.
The eight accused had broken into RAF (it is realy a USAF base) Lakenheath in Suffolk and chained themselves to the gate of a munition dump where cluster bombs had been seen earlier. During that time the F-15E planes were being deployed to Iraq.
The base is also believed to be home to 110 B61 nuclear bombs.
Melanie Harrison, one of the accused says: "It is absolutely shocking that these laws, supposedly directed at stopping terrorism, are being used against 8 non-violent peace activists trying to uphold humanitarian and international law."
They will appear at Bury St Edmunds court next Tuesday at 11:30 for the plead hearing.
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nice one!!
02.02.2007 20:13
smelly hippies
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What part of the criminal trespass law refers to terrorists?
07.02.2007 11:38
semanticist
STANDARD!!
16.02.2007 12:55
After all, the CJA wasn't orignially (oficially at least) intended to clamp down on Animal Rights protestors, was it..?
pragmatist