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Editor's Note, Update Nov 22 2000:This list of imprisoned activists is updated from the list and articles published in NR #121 (Oct 10 2000). People referred to as behind bars in those articles who are not listed here have since been released. For more information, contact the Nuclear Resister or subscribe and receive up-to-date information when the next issue is published.

THE WOMEN AND MEN LISTED BELOW ARE, AT PRESS TIME, IMPRISONED FOR ACTS OF NUCLEAR AND WAR RESISTANCE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT THE NUCLEAR RESISTER, P.O. BOX 43383, TUCSON, AZ 85733 - nukeresister@igc.org


KEY:

Name ID# (if needed) (sentence) prison or support address (action & date - in date or out date if known)

IMPRISONED NUCLEAR RESISTERS, USA:

Daniel Sicken #28360-013 (41 months)
FPC Lewisburg, PO Box 2000, Lewisburg, PA  17837.
Oliver Sachio Coe #28361-013 (30 months)
Montour County Prison, 117 Church Street, Danville, PA 17821.
("Minuteman III Plowshares" disarmament of nuclear missile silo, 8/6/98)

Philip Berrigan #292-139 (30 months)
Roxbury Correctional Institution, 18701 Roxbury Rd., Hagerstown, MD 21746
Susan Crane  #916-999 (27 months)
Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, PO Box 535, Jessup, MD 20794
Rev. Steve Kelly S. J. #292-140 (27 months)
Roxbury Correctional Institution, 18701 Roxbury Rd., Hagerstown, MD 21746
Elizabeth Walz  #995376 (18 months)
Baltimore Co. Detention Center, 200 Court House Court, Towson, MD 21204.
("Plowshares vs. Depleted Uranium" direct disarmament of A-10 anti-tank warplanes, 12/19/99 - in 12/99)

Kristen Betts (60 days)
Kent County Detention Center, 104 Vickers Dr., Chestertown, MD 21620.
Greg Boertje-Obed (6 months)
Montgomery Co. Detention Center, 1307 Seven Locks Rd. Rockville, MD 20854.
(Holding banner and leafletting at Andrews Air Force Base Open House, 5/00 - in 10/23/00)

Peter DeMott (60 days)
Felton Davis (90 days)
Alexandria Detention Center, 2001 Mill Rd., Alexandria, VA 22314.
(Refusing to leave Pentagon steps, 8/99 - in 10/24)

Leonard Peltier #89637-132 (life)
P.O. Box 1000, Leavenworth, KS 66048.
(Native American political prisoner)

(KNOWN) IMPRISONED NUCLEAR RESISTERS, OVERSEAS:

Mordechai Vanunu (18 years)
Ashkelon Prison, Ashkelon, Israel.
(Nuclear whistleblower convicted of espionage and treason - kidnapped 9/30/86)

THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE ARE NOW IN PRISON FOR ANTI-WAR RELATED ACTIVITIES:

Howard Mechanic #44998-008 (five years)
CCA-FCC FA203B, P.O. Box 6900, Florence, AZ 85232.
(Convicted 3/72 of violating Civil Obedience Act of 1968 during St. Louis protest following killings at Kent State University, May, 1970 - surrendered to serve sentence 2/2000)

Charles Liteky # 83276-020 (one year - out 7/31/01)
FPC Lompoc, 3705 W. Farm Road, Lompoc, CA 93436.
Sr. Megan Rice #88101-020 (six months - out 12/8/00)
FCI Danbury, Route 37 Pembroke Station, Danbury, CT 06811-3099.
Charles Butler #89758-020 (3 months, out 11/28)
FCI Waseca, P.O. Box 17312, University Dr SW, Waseca, MN 56093.
(Re-entry trespass at the School of the Americas, Ft. Benning, 11/99 - Sr. Rice in 6/8/00, others self-surrender beginning 7/31/00)

Previously listed, recently released:

John Honeck, Gerhard Fischer, Thomas Bottolene, Richard Brooks Anderson, Judy Bierbaum , Margaret Knapke, Susi Snyder, Sam Hochstetler, Sean Donohue, alyosha witness, Steve Argue, Dr. Wolfgang Sternstein, Michele Naar-Obed, Bonnie Urfer, Reynaldo Acevedo, Isaias Agosto, Luis Agroni, Pedro Alicea, Amilcar A. Alicea, Iván Alonso, Roberto Iván Aponte, Carlos David Aviles, Rodrigo Báez, José Rafael Bas, Jorge Bascage, Isaac Bennejo, Wigberto Berrios, Ángel Berrios, Luis Ernesto Borges, William Boria, Jimmy Borrero, Jaime Camacho, William Candelario, Roberto Caraltini, José Ángel Chacón, Luciano Colón, Carlos Colón, Omar José Colón, José Juan Cora, Edgardo Cordero, Froilán Cordero, José F. Crespo, Oswaldo Cruz, Ángel Cruz, Juan Manuel Dalmáu, Miguel Ángel Dávila, Cándido De Jesús, José Enrique De Jesús, Héctor Guillermo Diaz, Jaime Francisco Diaz, Manuel Antonio Diaz, Raúl Diaz, Anibal José Diaz, Luis Domenech, Carlos Alberto Escobales, Wilmer Estrada, Edwin J. Figueroa, Victor Manuel Figueroa, Manuel Flores, Carlos A. Frontera, Alberto Fuentes, Francisco Javier González, Arnaldo José González, Salvador González, César Eduardo Gutiérrez, Wilfredo Guzmán, Modesto Hernández, Pedro Hernández, Edgardo Hernández, José Ángel Hernández, Agustin Lebrón, Rafael López, Rubén Lucena, Rubén Lugo, Heriberto Alfonso Marín, Heriberto Marín, Carlos E. Marrero, Pedro Juan Méndez, Serafin Méndez, Oswaldo Manuel Merced, Andrés Miranda, Alejandro Morales, José Ángel Morot, Carlos A. Navarro, José Luis Nieves, Rubén Ortiz, Benjamin Ortiz, Héctor M. Otero, Héctor Xavier Otero, Pedro Iván Parrilla, Francisco Pérez, William Pérez, Bibiano Pizarro, Julio M. Ramos, Reinaldo Ramos, Rafael Ángel Rivera, Ángel Emilio Rivera, Luis Armando Rivera, Gilberto Rivera, Elvin Rodriguez, Alisandro Rodriguez, Ernesto Rodriguez, Othoniel Rosa, Juan Rafael Rosario, Luis Daniel Sánchez, Wilson W. Sánchez, José Humberto Santos, Oliverio Serrano, Adalberto Serrano, Samuel Soto, Enrique Soto, Ubaldo M. Soto, Luis Varela, Alberto Vázquez, Francisco Vega, Roberto Velázquez, Venancio Vélez, Eliasio Vélez, Juan Manuel Verges, Miguel Ángel Vilches, Johny Alverio, Gazir Sued-Jiménez, Alberto de Jesús, Felicita Cotto, Nylda R. Diaz, Maria Luisa Guzmán, Milagros Hernández, Zoraida Laboy, Cruz Cecilia López, Teresa Pizarro, Rosa Elena Sepúlveda, Marta Vázquez, Yahaira Enid Velázquez



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