SSP Research, Policy & Media Unit
Press Release: 31/08/05
8.30pm, Wednesday 31st August
Helen Street police station
Glasgow G51 3HQ
Scottish Socialist Party MSP Rosie Kane will hand herself in to the police on Wednesday 31st August after a warrant was issued for her arrest over non payment of a fine in relation to a protest at Faslane nuclear submarine base on the Clyde.
Rosie will report to Helen Street police station at 8.30pm, Wednesday 31st August and will appear at Glasgow District Court on Thursday 1st September, the first day of month long ban of 4 SSP MSP’s from the Scottish Parliament
Rosie has been protesting at Faslane for the past decade, the current charges relate to her arrest on 23rd August 2004 for blocking the highway.
She was fined £170 at Helensburgh District Court but has refused to pay and now expects a jail sentence
Rosie said today;
“As a Member of the Scottish Parliament I am accountable for my actions and so I am handing myself in to the police.
“I have been protesting against nuclear weapons at Faslane for the past decade and will continue to do so at every opportunity.
“This year has been the 60th anniversary of the annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “The defiant stand that I am taking serves notice that the nuclear disarmament movement will always speak out as long as these illegal weapons continue to threaten the entire human race.
“It should not be anti nuclear protestors who are in the dock but the politicians who are planning the next generation of the UK’s weapons of mass destruction.”
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