Chris Cole, Anti-War Resister, Jailed for 28 Days in London.

international | anti-war / imperialism | news report Tuesday January 23, 2007 13:29 by Solidarity

He's in There for Us, We're on the Loose for Him!

Chris Cole Jailed for Anti-War Protest on "Feast of Innocents" at Ministry of Defence (London)

Chris Cole, Christian peace activist from Oxford, was today jailed for 28 days by Magistrates at Horseferry Road Court , London for refusing to pay a fine of £661 in connection with an anti-Iraq war protest in December 2004.

Chris Cole (43), a father of three, from Oxford, along with Scott Albrecht, Sr. Susan Clarkson & Fr. Martin Newell of the Catholic Worker and Liz Yates dug symbolic graves in the lawn of the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall and sprayed ‘Remember the Innocent – Stop the War’ on December 28th 2004 (the Christian feast of Holy Innocents).

Cole told Magistrates at Horseferry Road Court that he refused to pay the fine as it had been right for the group to protest the war. Cole said “Thousands of innocent people have lost their lives in the illegal invasion and on-going war in Iraq. Ordinary people have a duty to resist war-making on innocent civilians by their government.”

In July 2006, court appointed bailiffs seized the Cole family car in connection with the fine and sold it at auction for a mere £52.

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*Photographs of the original action, can be found on the following web site
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