TAHITI RESISTERS FREED

        Tahitian anti-nuclear and independence activists were released from prison in Tahiti last December.  The handful of accused leaders who remained in prison after their convictions in September, 1998, were among more than 60 people arrested during widespread protests and a police-provoked riot at the international airport in Papeete in 1995, when
France conducted its last series of nuclear weapon tests at Murorua and Fangataufa atolls.

        News of the prisoners' release did not satisfy local anti-nuclear activists, however.  "[French President] Jacques Chirac has still not been charged for his crimes!"

        For more information, contact the pro-independence group Hiti Tau, POB 8075, Taravao, Tahiti, French Polynesia.