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Press Releases & Updates 2004
9th March 2004
"History will show that we were right" says Faslane protester
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Peace activist Emma Bateman today told Helensburgh District Court that in time it would be seen that those who took peaceful direct action against Trident were in the right.
Emma (35), from Leicester was on trial for being part of the blockade of Faslane naval base last April when she was one of the 160 arrested. After being found guilty of a breach of the peace by Justice of the Peace Bert Alexander she said: "I am proud to be part of the tradition of the Suffragettes and others who broke the law to challenge injustice in time it will be seen that we anti-Trident campaigners are also in the right." She was fined £100.
Earlier the JP found Josephine Craig (18), from Edinburgh, not guilty of a breach of the peace at a blockade of the WMD base in February 2002, saying that he found the evidence against her “a little bare”. Josephine had been part of a group preventing a truck from getting into the south gate of the base.
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