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Press Releases & Updates 1998
13th November 1998
Five women arrested at Faslane
Two men remanded at Helensburgh
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Today, 13th November, at 10.30. a.m., five women, all Trident Ploughshares activists, were arrested at the main gate at the Clyde Naval Base, Faslane, home to the Trident nuclear weapons system.
The five women were: Katri Silvonen, Lotta Muurinen, Hanna Jarvinen, all from Finland, Krista van Velzen who is Dutch and Angie Zelter from Norfolk. In August Katri and Krista twice swam to within metres of a Trident submarine before being arrested, intending to hammer on some part of the submarine to disable it.
The five women have been charged with the breach of bye-laws and vandalism. They probably will be held in custody over the weekend and will appear in court on Monday.
Two men remanded at Helensburgh
This afternoon, 13th November, TP2000 activists Peter Lanyon and Rupert Eris were remanded on bail at District a Court Hearing after pleading not guilty to charges of vandalism related to their direct action yesterday. They were unable to accept bail conditions since they felt that in accepting them they would be implying that they had committed an offence. They claimed they were upholding international law and so were not guilty of any crime.
They will appear in the District Court in Victoria Hall, Helensburgh on the 20th November at 10 am. Rupert Eris said, "If you release me I will go back to the bases and do it again."
Tony Blair’s speech criticised by Labour activist
In his speech to the North Atlantic assembly in Edinburgh today the prime minister condemned the SNP for its anti-nuclear stance.
David Mackenzie, a member of the constituency party in Dennis Canavan’s Falkirk West constituency said:
"The Prime Minister is well out of step with Scottish Labour on the issue of nuclear weapons. Just last year the party conference overwhelmingly endorsed an anti-Trident motion. This government has had the vision and initiative to make a significant breakthrough in Northern Ireland and to commit itself to the eradication of world poverty. Sadly, it has not begun to align its thinking on defence to the realities of the modern world, the claims of international law, and the deep repugnance that most Scots feel about the Trident monster in our lochs."
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