Press Releases & Updates 1998

Angie Zelter, a Ploughshares activist who is on remand in the Cornton Vale women’s prison in Scotland following three attempts to disarm the British Trident nuclear weapon system, will be in the High Court tomorrow in Edinburgh. She is appealing against her imprisonment, as she states ’It are members of the UK Government who should be on remand. They are breaking international laws with the development and deployment of the first strike nuclear weapons system at the Trident submarine base in Scotland’.

Angie Zelter was one of the four women who made history in 1996 by being acquitted by an English jury for prevention of a major crime against humanity. The four women were on trial after causing an estimated 1,5 million pounds worth of damage to a Hawk aircraft bound for oppression of East-Timor resistance in Indonesia.

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