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Press Releases & Updates 2001
12th February 2001
HUNDREDS OF INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AT FASLANE
Senior Scots Lawyer Among Those Held
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Around 350 people taking part in today’s blockade of Faslane naval base
have already been held by police, including MP George Galloway, Caroline
Lucas, Member of the European Parliament, Tommy Sheridan, Member of the
Scottish Parliament, Scottish author Alisdair Gray and Ian Hamilton Q.C.,
the senior Scottish lawyer who brought back the Stone of Destiny to
Scotland in the early fifties.
The activists at Faslane today came from England, Wales, Ireland, Finland,
Denmark, Germany, Spain, South Korea, Belgium, Holland, Australia and
Columbia as well as in considerable numbers from Scotland itself.
The blockade began at 7 a.m. Activists tied on to each other with chains
and other ingenious contraptions, or simply linked arms or sat down in the
road. A number of ministers of religion, including Norman Shanks, leader of
the Iona Community, have been arrested. Scottish church leaders held a
service of worship in the middle of the event and made strong statements of
support for the campaign of civil resistance to Trident.
A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said:
"We are delighted that so many
came from far and wide and put themselves on the line. The fact that
parliamentarians, ministers of religion, a senior lawyer and a prominent
author are among those arrested shows that this campaign is not restricted
to a few activists but is beginning to engage civic society, especially in
Scotland. Following on our recent court successes this is a great boost for
the campaign."
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