[news] Priests Jailed for Protesting Torture

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

**Louis Vitale**, 75, a Franciscan priest, and **Steve Kelly**, 58, a Jesuit priest, were each sentenced to **five months** in federal prison for attempting to deliver a letter opposing the teaching of torture at Fort Huachuca in Arizona...Fort Huachuca is...the place where military and civilian interrogators are taught how to extract information from prisoners...The priests were arrested while kneeling in prayer halfway up the driveway to Fort Huachuca in November 2006. Both priests were charged with trespass on a military base and resisting orders of an officer to stop.

  


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