BRITISH WOMAN JAILED

Veteran defender of commoners’ land and footpath privileges, Lindis Percy, had racked up 114 breaches of an injunction barring her from the Menwith Hill spy base in England when she was finally brought to the bar last March.

Ignoring the fact that Percy had breached her injunction in order to hold the military to lawful account for their refusal to remove invalid bye-laws notices from around the base, the judge sentenced her to nine months in prison.  Percy won a case several years ago, challenging the legitimacy of the military bylaws at Menwith Hill, and was entering the base regularly (over 400 times since 1996) and taping “INVALID” signs across each notice of the bylaws she could find.

Percy’s refusal to adapt to routine prison injustices has kept her at a relatively high security level.

For more information, contact Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB), 8 Park Row, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1HQ, England, U.K. Email: caab.lindis_anni@virgin.net
http://www.gn.apc.org/cndyorks/caab/

Letters of support should be sent to Lindis Percy, #CF9734, HMP Highpoint, Stradishall, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 9YG, England, U.K.