Brits sentenced for anti-RI protest

Brits sentenced for anti-RI protest

LONDON (Reuter): Two British activists who trespassed onto
British Aerospace (BAe) property to protest at the export of Hawk
missiles to Indonesia received three-month suspended jail
sentences yesterday for contempt of court.

Ciaron O'Reilly of Liverpool and Stephen Hancock of Oxford
admitted they had breached an injunction and buried a child's
coffin on BAe land last December to bury in memory of East
Timorese who have died under Indonesian rule.

BAe signed a contract in June 1993 to supply 24 Hawk missiles
to Indonesia.

The judge said no one could fail to be impressed by what the
men had said in their defense, but they had defied an injunction
banning them from trespassing on BAe property to draw attention
to their campaign.