HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 07 January 2002 GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS, JOURNALISTS ON TRIAL IN U.S. FOR STAR WARS
PROTEST
Los Angeles, January 7 (RHC)-- Fifteen Greenpeace activists and two journalists
are set to stand trial Tuesday over a Star
Wars
protest at a US air force base in California
last
summer. The accused face serious felony charges,
but it's rumored that federal authorities are
offering lesser misdemeanor charges in exchange
for guilty pleas.
The activists -- from the US, Britain, Australia, Canada, Germany, India, New Zealand, the
Netherlands, Sweden and Spain -- were
arrested at
Vandenberg air force base on July 14, the
day that
a test of the Star Wars missile
defense program was
taking place, and were taken to court in
shackles.
Their trial had been due to open on November 20 last year, but Judge Margaret Morrow agreed
to
an application by defense lawyers
for a delay
after they had argued that the political
climate in the US following the September
11
terror attacks would make it difficult
for the
17 to receive a fair trial.
The case has involved Greenpeace in heavy legal costs, but the organization has reaffirmed the right of people
to object to Star Wars and vows to continue its
campaign.
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