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, was in the High Court today in Edinburgh. She was appealing against her imprisonment, and stated ’It is 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’.

This morning during a closed hearing, at the High Court, Angie was unsuccessful in her appeal and will now return to Cornton Vale Womans Prison to join the other political prisoners

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.

In Cornton Vale women’s prison

Angie Zelter, 49, Norfolk, UK, potter, remanded till Sept. 22

Hanna Jarvinen, 21, Finland, For Mother Earth campaigner in Gent, Belgium, remanded till Sept. 29

Helen John, 60, Yorkshire, UK, remanded till Sept. 29

Katri Silvonen, 20, Finland, For Mother Earth campaigner in Gent, Belgium, remanded till Sept. 29

Krista van Velzen, 23, Netherlands, For Mother Earth campaigner in Gent, Belgium, remanded till Sept. 29

In Gateside Greenock men’s prison

Jens Light, 32, Canberra, Australia, Public servant, remanded till Sept. 22

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