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Anti-war activists have chained themselves inside the Irish Embassy in London in protest at the upcoming trial of those charged with damaging a US military aircraft at Shannon Airport.
They are protesting criminal charges against peace activists who will next week face a possible ten year prison sentence for physically disarming a US Navy Plane at Shannon Airport...
Joss Garman, speaking for the demonstrators, explained, “The Pitstop Ploughshares * who damaged the plane at Shannon airport - acted to uphold International Law, and to prevent Irish complicity in genocide. Far
from breaking the law, they were upholding it, because the war in Iraq was clearly illegal. It clearly isn’t right that peace campaigners should face years in prison, whilst Bertie Ahern remains at large.”
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68835
They are protesting criminal charges against peace activists who will next week face a possible ten year prison sentence for physically disarming a US Navy Plane at Shannon Airport...
Joss Garman, speaking for the demonstrators, explained, “The Pitstop Ploughshares * who damaged the plane at Shannon airport - acted to uphold International Law, and to prevent Irish complicity in genocide. Far
from breaking the law, they were upholding it, because the war in Iraq was clearly illegal. It clearly isn’t right that peace campaigners should face years in prison, whilst Bertie Ahern remains at large.”
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68835
