Convictions - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 10 May 2015 22:50:43 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Convictions - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Nun, 85, who broke into US defence base wins appeal https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/05/12/nun-85-who-broke-into-us-defence-base-wins-appeal/ Mon, 11 May 2015 19:07:25 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=71266 A US appeals court has ruled an 85-year-old nun and two men did not commit sabotage when they broke into a defence site for storing enriched uranium for bombs. Sr Megan Rice and two men had their convictions for sabotage overturned. But their convictions for damaging government property were upheld. The court ordered they be Read more

Nun, 85, who broke into US defence base wins appeal... Read more]]> A US appeals court has ruled an 85-year-old nun and two men did not commit sabotage when they broke into a defence site for storing enriched uranium for bombs.

Sr Megan Rice and two men had their convictions for sabotage overturned.

But their convictions for damaging government property were upheld.

The court ordered they be resentenced on the latter convictions, based on time already served.

In 2012, the three cut through four layers of fences and entered the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

They spray-painted antiwar slogans, splashed blood and hammered on exterior walls of the facility as part of their protest against nuclear weapons.

"They did not cut [the fences] to allow Qaeda to slip in behind," the ruling stated.

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