Category - Trident Ploughshares

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20 Nov 2009

Activists arrested while opposing NATO "hypocrisy"

Six members of the nonviolent campaigning group Trident Ploughshares have been arrested after blocking the entrance to a meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly at Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
3 Nov 2009

Eighty-one-year-old Catholic priest and nun abused after weapons protest

A Catholic priest and a nun, both in their 80s, were hooded, handcuffed and held faced down on the ground for four hours before being arrested after a protest against nuclear weapons yesterday.
19 Oct 2009

Activists arrested at Aldermaston showed "same commitment" as Obama

Five anti-nuclear protestors who face court this week have said that they showed “exactly the same commitment” as US President Barack Obama, whose work towards “a world without nuclear weapons” won him the Nobel Peace Prize.