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Editor's Note, Update May 26 99: This list of imprisoned activists is updated from the list and articles published in NR #114 (11/16/98). People referred to as behind bars in those articles who are not listed here have since been released. For more information, contact the Nuclear Resister or subscribe and receive up-to-date information when the next issue is published.

THE WOMEN AND MEN LISTED BELOW ARE, AT PRESS TIME, IMPRISONED FOR ACTS OF NUCLEAR AND WAR RESISTANCE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT THE NUCLEAR RESISTER, P.O. BOX 43383, TUCSON, AZ 85733 - nukeresister@igc.org


KEY:

Name ID# (if needed) (sentence) prison or support address (action & date - in date or out date if known)

IMPRISONED NUCLEAR RESISTERS, USA:

Tom Lewis-Borbley #03609-036 (3 months, refused to pay restitution - out 6/25/99)
c/o 136 Austin St, Worcester, MA  01609.
("Prince of Peace Plowshares" direct disarmament action of USS Sullivans, 2/14/97)

Martha Scarborough, inmate (9 months)
Joyce Parkhurst, inmate (9 months)
c/o Nye County Sheriff, Detention Center, POB 831, Tonopah, NV  89049. (fence-cutting at Nevada Test Site, 8/97 - out 9/99)

Kathy Boylan #20047-016 (10 months)
FPC Alderson, Box A, C-12, Alderson WV  24910.
("Gods of Metal Plowshares" disarmament of B-52 bomber, 5/17/98 - out 7/21/99)

Daniel Sicken #28360-013 (41 months)
FPC Lewisburg, PO Box 2000, Lewisburg, PA  17837.
Oliver Sachio Coe #28361-013 (30 months)
FPC Allenwood, PO Box 1000, Montgomery, PA  17752-9716.
("Minuteman III Plowshares" disarmament of nuclear missile silo, 8/6/98 - sentenced 2/18/99)

Leonard Peltier 89637-132 (life) P.O. Box 1000, Leavenworth, KS 66048.
(Native American political prisoner)

IMPRISONED ANTI-WAR RESISTERS, USA:

Bill Streit (5 months) c/o 2780 Hadensville-Fife Rd., Goochland, VA 22314 (Pentagon blood pouring, 12/28/98 - in 4/27/99)

John Patrick Liteky #83275-020 (two years)
FPC Sheridan Unit E-4, POB 6000, Sheridan OR  97378-6000. (School of the Americas protests at the Pentagon and Ft. Benning - in 6/19/98)

Kathleen Rumpf #02117-052 (12 months) FMC Carswell, POB 27066, Ft Worth TX  76127-0137. (School of the Americas sign alteration, 9/29/97 - in 7/23/98)

Fr. Bill Bichsel SJ #86275-020 (18 months) FPC Sheridan Unit 5, P.O. Box 6000, Sheridan, OR 97378-6000.
Sr. Marge Eilerman OSF #88106-020 (14 months) FPC Lexington, 3301 Leestown Rd., Lexington KY 40511.
Ed Kinane #86279-020 (16 months) FPC Allenwood, POB 1000, Montgomery, PA 17752.
Mary Trotochaud #88102-020 (14 months) FPC Alderson, Box A, Alderson Women's Prison, Alderson, WV 24910.
(School of the Americas sign alteration, 9/29/97, and repeat trespass at School of the Americas, 11/16/97 - in 10/98)

IMPRISONED NUCLEAR RESISTERS, OVERSEAS:

Grigory Pasko (awaiting trial) no address available, Russia
(Military journalist & nuclear whistleblower under arrest for espionage - in custody since 11/97)

Stellan Vinthagen # BT8233
Ann-Britt Sternfeldt #BE8941
Annika Spalde #BE8940 ("Bread Not Bombs Ploughshares" disarmament attempt of HMS Vengeance, 9/13/98 - their trial ended in a hung jury, and they are OUT until re-trial, likely in the fall)

Lindis Percy #CF9734 (9 months) HMP Highpoint, Stradishall, Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 9YG, England, UK. (Persistent resistance to illicit military by-laws - out 7/30/99)

Mordechai Vanunu (18 years) Ashkelon Prison, Ashkelon, Israel.
(Nuclear whistleblower convicted of espionage and treason - kidnapped 9/30/86)



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