Press Releases & Updates 2001
22nd November 2001
Green MEP Faces Faslane Trial on Monday
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Green Party Member of the European Parliament Dr. Caroline Lucas is due to
face trial in Scotland on Monday 26th November for a breach of the peace
charge arising from the Big Blockade of Faslane in February.
Dr. Lucas’ trial will take place in Helensburgh District Court, a few miles
from the naval base, home to Britain’s Trident nuclear weapon submarines,
where she took part in the blockade on 12th February and was arrested along
with 384 others in one of the biggest protests against nuclear weapons for
many years.
Dr. Lucas is well known as a strong and articulate critic of globalisation
and was an official EU delegate to the recent WTO meeting in Doha. She is
one of three parliamentarians arrested at the Big Blockade. Tommy Sheridan
MSP was found not guilty of a breach of the peace in the same court in
October and George Galloway MP will be tried on 25th March. 76 other
parliamentarians back the Trident Ploughshares campaign which organised the
blockade along with CND.
David Mackenzie said: "Caroline’s willingness to stand with us in
confronting Britain’s flagrant nuclear terrorism is a great encouragement."
Trident Ploughshares are winners of the 2001 Right Livelihood Award to be
presented in the Swedish Parliament in December. The Award honours the
campaign as "a model of principled, transparent and non-violent direct
action dedicated to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Their imaginative
campaign highlights the illegality of these weapons."
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