Press Releases & Updates 1999

The three women activists, Angie Zelter, Ulla Roder and Ellen Moxley are charged with causing £100,000 worth of damage to "Maytime", a Trident related floating laboratory, in Loch Goil in June this year. The women have pled not guilty to the charges, although they accept responsibility for their actions which they claim were necessary to prevent a violation of international humanitarian law. This morning the 15 jurors were chosen and sworn in, and the prosecution has started to present its evidence. Photographs of the damaged lab have been shown and the disarmament tools have been presented to the court.

There is an impressive line-up of expert witnesses for the defence, internationally renowned for their knowledge and experience. Among the witnesses are Professor Francis Boyle from Illinois, a specialist in international legal studies, German Judge Ulf Panzer, and Rebecca Johnson from Geneva, an expert on the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Johnson claims that Britain has clearly violated the NPT, in which it has made a firm commitment to disarm its nuclear arsenal.

Public meeting:7.30 p.m. on Friday 1st October in Friends’ Meeting House, 38 Elmbank Street, Glasgow on the theme "Get Rid of Trident". Several of the expert witnesses will be speaking, including Rebecca Johnson, Ulf Panzer and Prof. Francis Boyle (see previous briefings for further details of expert witnesses)

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