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Editor's Note, Update July 7 2001: This list of imprisoned activists is updated from the list and articles published in NR #124 (Jul 1 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)

Please be sure to include the prisoner's ID# in the address.

IMPRISONED NUCLEAR RESISTERS, USA:

Susan Crane #87783-011 (one year)
FCI Dublin, 5701 8th Street, Dublin, CA 94568.
Philip Berrigan #14850-056 (one year)
FCI Elkton, P.O. Box 10, Lisbon, OH 44432.
(Prince of Peace Plowshares direct disarmament action, 2/14/97 - in 2/2/01 for probation violation due to subsequent Plowshares vs. DU action)

Rev. Stephen 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)

Mark Kinney #14018-047 (6 months)
FPC, POB 1000, Duluth, MN 55814.
(Repeated trespass at StratCom, Offutt AFB - out 10/16)

Bonnie Urfer #04970-045 (6 months - out 11/4)
FPC, POB 6000, Greenville, IL 62246.
("Silence Trident" direct disarmament of Project ELF, 6/2000 - in 5/4/2001)

Robert Dietrich #1484699 (awaiting sentencing 8/6)
Brian Buckley #1484695 (awaiting trial 7/31)
Kern County Jail, 17645 Industrial Farm Rd., Bakersfield, CA 93308.
(Conspiracy and trespass at Vandenberg Air Force Base, 5/20/01)

Daniel Sicken #28360-013 (41 months)
c/o Coolidge House, 307 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115.
("Minuteman III Plowshares" disarmament of nuclear missile silo, 8/6/98)

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

OVERSEAS, THESE NUCLEAR RESISTERS ARE KNOWN TO BE IN PRISON:

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

Helen John (awaiting trial 7/28)
HMP Cornton Vale, Cornton Road, Stirling FK9 5NY, Scotland, UK.
(Anti-nuclear graffiti on Scottish Parliament and High Court, 9/99)

Yuri Bandazhevsky (8 years)
Belarus, no address available
Chernobyl researcher and whistleblower fraudulently convicted of corruption, 6/01)

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

SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH:
Jack Gilroy
(6 months)
Karl Meyer (6 months)
Josh Raisler Cohn (6 months)
(Three in transit soon to federal prisons)
c/o SOA Watch, POB 4566, Washington DC 20017.
(Re-entry trespass at the School of the Americas, Ft. Benning, 11/00 - out 11/23)

The following SOA resisters are expected to begin serving their sentences by the end of July. You may write to them c/o SOA Watch, POB 4566, Washington DC 20017.

David Corcoran (6 months)
Mary Lou Benson (6 months)
Russell De Young (6 months)
John Ewers (6 months)
Clare Hanrahan (6 months)
Rachel Louise Hayward (6 months)
Dorothy M. Hennessey (6 months)
Gwen Hennessey (6 months)
Rita Hohenshell (3 months)
William Houston (6 months)
John Alfred Hunt Jr. (6 months)
Steve Jacobs (1 year)
Rebecca Kanner (6 months)
Joel Kilgour (1 month)
Richard John Kinane (6 months)
Elizabeth Anne McKenzie (6 months)
Lois Putzier (6 months)
Eric Robison (6 months)
Miriam Spencer (6 months)
Hazel Tulecke (3 months)
Mary Alice Vaughan (6 months)

VIEQUES:

Alberto de Jesús #19580-069 (one year - out 5/02)
Carlos Alá Santiago Rivera #20700-069 (4 months - out 10/5)
Rubén Berríos Martínez #21440-069 (4 months - out 8/27)
Samuel Soto Bosques #20107-069 (4 months - out 8/27)
José "Tato" Rivera Santana #21607-069 (90 days - out 8/21)
Ernesto Peña Carambot #21622-069 (90 days - out 8/21)
José Perez Gonzalez #21519-069 (90 days - out 7/27)
Richard C. Williams #21470-069 (30 days - out 7/28)
Dan Steiger # not avail. (30 days - out 7/28)
Harold A. Penner #21471-069 (20 days - out 7/18)
Jesús Cabrera Cirilo #21570-069 (40 days - out 7/14)
José Román Rivera #21583-069 (40 days - out 7/14)
Ricardo Anglada Diaz # not avail. (30 days - out 7/12)
José R. Rivera Santana #21605-069 (40 days - out 7/10)
Raúl A. Vázquez Mestre #21574-069 (40 days - out 7/10)
Dalimar Vega Rodríguez #21558-069 (40 days -out 7/10)
Danny Rivera Mendez #21590-069 (30 days - out 7/6)
Jaime Perelló #21616-069 (30 days - out 7/6)
Edgardo Rodríguez Riquelme #21617-069 (30 days - out 7/6)
Richard Timm Ríos #21605-069 (30 days - out 7/6)

All of the above are imprisoned at: MDC Guaynabo, POB 2147, San Juan, PR 00922-2147.

Rev. Al Sharpton (90 days - out 8/23)
MDC Brooklyn, 80 29th St., Brooklyn, NY 11232.
(Repeat trespass on bombing range at Vieques, PR)

Recently arrested on Vieques and awaiting trial at MDC Guaynabo, POB 2147, San Juan, PR 00922-2147 (not all ID numbers available at press time):

Wilfrido Ortiz Santiago #21639-069
Ramon Lopez Aleman #21636-069
Maria Arroyo Carrion #not avail.
Dwight Rodriguez Orta #22119-069
Pedro Jose Alvarez Vasquez #22120-069
Juan Rafael Valdes #22118-069
Jorge Rodriguez Mendez #22117-069
Luis Roberto Piñero Gonzalez II #22115-069
Pedro Anibal Diaz Santos #22116-069
Ismael Guadalupe Torres #21644-069
Ivan Torres Ortiz #21647-069
Miguel Perez Diaz #21645-069
Dara Guadalupe Carrasquillo #20078-069
Edgar Sanchez #21646-069
Frances Guzman Lago #21643-069
Valgina Rodriguez #21642-069
Saturnino Rivera #19517-069
Ruben Arcelay Medina #21658-069
Yvette Ramos Martinez #21661-069
Francisco Baez #22128-069
Jaime Robles #22127-069
Lolita Lebron #not avail.
Alba Nydia Rivera #not avail.
Minerva Gonzalez Paniagua #not avail.
Francisco Ruiz Morales #not avail.
Andres Mendez Aviles #not avail.
Juan Capella Noya #22161-069
Adam Clayton Powell IV #not avail.
Felix Colon Bernard #not avail.
Lillian Marti Diaz #not avail.

Previously listed, recently released:

Greg Boertje-Obed, John LaForge, John Heid, Fr. Martin Newell, Susan van der Hijden, Michael Sprong, Rev. Carl Kabat, Charles Liteky
More than one hundred other people were imprisoned for one to 45 days since last April, following their arrest on Vieques, PR. More than three dozen have been released only in the last few days.



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