July 2010

4 reports

  1. Louis Vitale, Richard Sauder both out of jail

    Fr. Louis Vitale completed a six month prison sentence for trespass at Ft. Benning, Georgia, on Friday, July 23.  He walked out of the federal prison at Lompoc, California. Read about Vitale’s November 2009 arrest here. Also on July 23, Richard Sauder was convicted in federal court in Minot, North Dakota, of trespassing at a […]

  2. British War Refuser Joe Glenton Released

    Read the full report and view an interview with Joe at  www.counterfire.org Joe Glenton, the soldier who refused to return to fight in Afghanistan and who spoke out against the war, was released from military prison yesterday. He was greeted by around 30 supporters and dozens of reporters outside the Military Corrective Training Centre in […]

  3. EDO Decommissioners Acquitted; Elijah Smith Released

    (from smashedo.org.uk) Elijah Smith, decommissioner of EDO MBM/ITT, is free after a year and a half in Jail. Well Done Elijah! All Decommissioners acquitted -Resisting War Crimes is Officially not a Crime The EDO Decommissioners have all walked free after unanimous acquittals following the three week trial which concluded on Friday (2nd July) at Hove […]

  4. Igor Sutyagin Freed in “Spy” Swap

    After serving more than ten years of a 15-year sentence for espionage, Russian arms researcher Igor Sutyagin was freed today in what is being reported as the largest spy swap between the United States and Russia since the end of the Cold War. Sutyagin was not a spy, but reportedly shared sensitive information about Russian […]