Editor's Note, Update Feb 2 2001:This list of imprisoned activists
is updated from the list and articles published in NR #122 (Jan 30 2001).
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 Unit 1, P.O. Box 2000, Lewisburg, PA 17837.
("Minuteman III Plowshares" disarmament of nuclear missile
silo, 8/6/98)
Rev. Steve Kelly S. J. #292-140 (27 months)
Roxbury Correctional Institution, 18701 Roxbury Rd., Hagerstown, MD 21746
("Plowshares vs. Depleted Uranium" direct disarmament of A-10
anti-tank warplanes, 12/19/99 - in 12/99)
Philip Berrigan (12 months)
Susan Crane (12 months)
c/o Jonah House, 1301 Moreland, Baltimore, MD 21216.
(Probation violation for Plowshares v. DU action, against Prince of Peace
Plowshares sentence - in 2/2/01)
Greg Boertje-Obed (6 months)
FCI Fort Dix, P.O. Box 7000, Fort Dix, NJ 08640.
(Bannering at Andrews Air Force Base Open House, 5/00 - in 10/23/00)
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)
Fr. Martin Newell #EM6780
Susan van der Hijden #EN5880
c/o Peace Pagoda, Willen, Milton Keynes, MK15 OBA, England.
("Jubilee Ploughshares 2000" direct disarmament of nuclear
weapons transport vehicles, 11/3/00 - awaiting trial)
THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE ARE NOW IN PRISON FOR ANTI-WAR RELATED ACTIVITIES:
Charles Liteky # 83276-020 (one year)
FPC Lompoc, 3705 W. Farm Road, Lompoc, CA 93436.
(Re-entry trespass at the School of the Americas, Ft. Benning, 11/99
- out 7/31/01)
Previously listed, recently released:
Margaret Knapke, Judy Bierbaum, Richard Brooks Anderson,
Thomas Bottolene, Charles Butler, Gerhard Fischer, John Honeck, Sr. Megan
Rice, Oliver Sachio Coe, Elizabeth Walz, Howard Mechanic
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