Ploughshares activist to be deported

[Englander]

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/605/605p22b.htm

Angie Zelter, a well-known non-violent peace and human rights activist from Britain, is currently being held by the Israeli authorities in a cell at Ben Gurion airport, Israel.

From Green Left Weekly, November 3, 2004.

>>Zelter, a founding member of the Trident Ploughshares and the International Women’s Peace Service, arrived at Ben Gurion airport on October 24. Zelter was detained and interrogated by Israeli authorities for over 12 hours, before being denied entry to the country. She was detained as a “security risk”, placed in a holding cell at the airport police station and told that she would be held for even days before being put on a flight back to Britain.

>>In 1996, Zelter, along with three other women, disarmed a British Aerospace Hawk fighter jet destined for sale to Indonesia for use against the civilian population of East Timor. Zelter and the other three were acquitted of all charges.

>>In 2001, the Right Livelihood award, also known as the “alternative Nobel Prize”, was awarded to Zelter and the Trident Ploughshares, along with Israeli peace activists and founders of Gush Shalom, Uri and Rachel Avnery. Other prominent recipients of the award include Israeli peace activists Felicia Langer and Mordechai Vanunu, as well as other human rights activists such as Walden Bello, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Vandana Shiva.<<