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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 8. Juli 2004 / Time Line July 8, 2004
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07/08/2004
Democracy; Israel
Tel Aviv District Court Judge upheld the Ministry of Interior's
deportation order of American peace activist Ann Petter.
Judge Mudrik accepted the Ministry of Interior's argument that
Petter should be barred from entering Israel because of her
participation in a peace march last year organized by the
International Solidarity Movement, which is a Palestinian-led
movement working for Palestinian freedom and an end to the Israeli
occupation. Judge Mudrik held that the case did not warrant the
Court's intervention in the decision of the State, writes
International Solidarity Movement.
07/08/2004
Privatisation of Iraq on Trial - POSTPONED Until November
23-24
In amendment to earlier press releases sent out regarding the trial
of peace activists Pennie Quinton and Ewa Jasiewicz,
charged with aggravated trespass of the Iraq Procurement
Conference, the defendents' has been trial adjourned until November
23-24.
This is due to the Crowns failure to disclose related materials
concerning their arrest. The Crown will also need more time to
respond to the political nature of the defences arguments.
The Iraq Procurement Conference was sponsored by Erinys, the oil
giants Chevron, Exxon and Shell plus arms dealers Raytheon. The
conference was supposed to serve three purposes:
(i) To allow the suppliers of goods and services to meet.
(ii) To form partnering agreements.
(iii) To sign procurement contracts.
The conference website described the event as, not a talking shop
but a place where deals are made and contracts signed.
During the protest the pair unravelled banners and addressed the
delegates, as collaborators, complicit in massacres in Iraq. They
went on to declare the conference illegal under international
law.
The defendants have been charged with 'disrupt[ing] a lawful
meeting.
The defence will argue that the meeting was not a lawful event as
it was facilitating acts of pillage - illegal under the Hague
Regulations of 1907 which Britain and the US are both signatories
to.
In a leaked memo dated March 26th 2003, UK Attorney General, Lord
Peter Goldsmith advised Prime Minister Blair that in his view, 'the
imposition of major structural economic reforms would not be
authorised under international law'. (Source: Guardian, 7 November
2003, Pillage is forbidden: Why the privatisation of Iraq is
illegal Aaron Mate).
The defendants have asked the Attorney General to give evidence. It
is not yet known whether he will attend. Expert legal evidence plus
statements of Governing Council ministers declaring the
Privatisation plans as coercive and illegal will also be heard.
This case will set a legal precedent by putting the pillage of Iraq
on trial. The defendants hope the court will rule that the
conference was unlawful based on international law, writes Pennie
Quinton and Ewa Jasiewicz.
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