2 August 2002
RENOWNED PEACE ACTIVIST JAILED
TRIDENT PLOUGHSHARES
Today, at Argyll and Bute District Court in Helensburgh, renowned Danish peace activist, Ulla Roder, was sent to Cornton Vale prison in Stirling after taking part in non-violent practical acts of people’s disarmament with Trident Ploughshares.
Just as Trident Ploughshares begin their two week long international disarmament camp at the bases home to Britain’s nuclear weapons of mass destruction on the Clyde, Ulla Roder who was famously acquitted at Greenock after the disarmament of a Trident related floating laboratory and who is renowned for swimming on to a Trident and painting ‘USELESS’ on the side of it last April, is jailed. This time, she has been placed on remand in relation to a number of charges including cutting the base fences on separate occasions and attempting to swim out to the submarines again.
A spokesman for Trident Ploughshares explained, “Ulla has been jailed for simply exercising her right as an International citizen to uphold International law by attempting to take peaceful steps in trying to disarm Trident. I find it particularly upsetting that as thousands starve in Southern Africa from Famine, we continue to spend £1.5 billion on an illegal and totally immoral nuclear weapons system.”
Yesterday, a further three peace activists were arrested for cutting the fence at the Royal Naval Armaments Depot at Coulport. Joss Garman from Mid Wales joined Karen Fallon and Stan Robinson of Faslane Peace Camp in another peaceful protest against these weapons.
Contacts:
David Mackenzie 0870 458 3117 (07876593016)
Jane Tallents 08454588367
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